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Services this Thursday
By Gregg K. Kakesako
for Schofield soldier
Star-BulletinPrivate memorial services for the 23-year-old Schofield Barracks soldier killed last week during a training accident at the Big Island's Pohakuloa Training Area will be held Thursday.
Spec. Don Falter, a combat engineer assigned to the 25th Infantry Division's 65th Engineer Battalion, was killed Wednesday and four other soldiers from the same squad were injured.
Thursday afternoon's memorial service, which will be open only to members of Falter's unit, will be held at Schofield Barracks' main chapel.
The Army said the incident, the 25th Division's first training fatality at Pohakuloa in 12 years, occurred while the engineer squad was using a bangalore torpedo to destroy an obstacle.
The Army said a team of investigators from the Safety Center at Fort Rucker is reviewing the cause of the accident, which occurred during night training.
Memorial services for Henry A. Walker Jr., 78, of Honolulu, the retired chief executive officer of Amfac Corp.,are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at St. Andrew's Cathedral. Memorial rites
tomorrow for
Henry Walker Jr.He is survived by his wife Nancy; daughter Susan Walker Kowen; son Henry "Ren" III; sister Ann Walker Burns, and two grandsons. Donations suggested to Child & Family Service or Straub Foundation. Aloha attire.
Kellie Ann Andrade, 38, of Honolulu, a KITV-4 traffic coordinator, died Friday in Queen's Hospital. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by parents Anthony and Naomi; sisters Terri and Debby, and grandmother Blossom. Services: 11 a.m. Thursday at Nuuanu Mortuary. Call after 9:30 a.m. Casual attire. Victorio B. Burton, 87, of Paauhau, Hawaii, a retired sugar processor for the former Paauhau and Hamakua Sugar Co., died Thursday in Hale Ho'ola Hamakua, Honokaa Hospital. He was born in the Philippines. He is survived by wife Kiyoko; sons Victorio Jr. and James; daughters Norma Devine, Mila Burton and Miriam Poha; sisters Mercedes Balbero and Petra Alforque, nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Services: 6 p.m. Friday at Dodo Mortuary. Call after 5 p.m. Casual attire.
Berhamen "Ben" Castillo, 71, of Kaneohe, a retired forklift operator for Ameron Ltd., died April 4. He was born in Waialua. He is survived by wife Sylvia; sons Benjamin and Barry Castillo, Brian Kaninaualii and Randall Cuarisma; daughters Berna Mae "Bae" Aumua, Gwendolyn Vierra and Wendy Kanehailua; brothers Edward "Eddie" Tarape and Porfirio "Sonny" Ventura; sisters Susie Salvacion, Angeline Flores and Shirley Mande, and 26 grandchildren. Services: 6:30 p.m. Friday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Call from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Cremation to follow. Memorial services: 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Hauula Beach Park. Aloha attire.
Gordon D. Cox, 34, of Pahoa, Hawaii, a fisherman, died last Tuesday in Hilo Hospital. He was born in Honokaa, Hawaii. He is survived by sons Gordon D. Jr. and Aaron R.; mother Thelma M.; brother Douglas, and sister Sally Hayes. Services: 4 p.m. tomorrow at Annunciation Catholic Church. Call after 3 p.m. Scattering of ashes to follow. Casual attire.
Irene K. "Lani" Enoka-Valdez, 78, of Kailua is also survived by hanai sister Margaret Uyehara. The additional information for an obituary published Saturday was provided by the mortuary.
Stanley S. Fujioka, 60, of Honolulu, an auto mechanic for Tradewind Chevron, died last Tuesday in Queen's Hospital. He was born in South Hilo. He is survived by brother Sam I., and sisters Betty T. Ikehara, Kimiyo Cadwallader, Masue Davis and Mabel M. Kim. Services: 4 p.m. Thursday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Casual attire. No flowers.
Kimiyo Hashimoto, 98, of Pahoa, Hawaii, died Saturday in Hilo Hospital. She was born in Mountain View, Hawaii. She is survived by sons Akeshi, Ichiro and Kenji; daughters Fusae and Tsuruyo "Elaine" Yamamoto and Sueko Fukuda; 29 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild. Services: 5 p.m. Thursday at Dodo Mortuary. Call after 4 p.m. Casual attire.
Frieda G.P. Herminau, 78, died Saturday in Queen's Hospital. She was born in Baltimore. She is survived by daughters Joyce Ann Herminau and Paula G. Hodges, four grandchildren and five great-granddaughters. Services: 9:30 a.m. Friday at University of Hawaii's Newman Center Chapel on East-West Road. Call after 9 a.m. Burial: 9:30 a.m. Monday at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl. Aloha attire. No flowers. Donations suggested to Hospice Hawaii, 860 Iwilei Road, Honolulu 96817.
Jane K. Imamiya, also known as Jane K. Miyasato, 68, of Honolulu, owner of Jane M Hawaii, died Saturday in Kuakini Hospital. She was also a garment manufacturer. She was born in Fukuoka Ken, Japan. She is survived by daughters Marilene Nada and Ailene Miyasato; sisters Sadako Imamiya and Kazuko Yoneshima, and two grandchildren. Memorial services: 6 p.m. Friday at Nuuanu Mortuary. Casual attire.
Sheldon-Kekoa K. Kamohai, 17, of Hilo, a senior at Hilo High School, died Friday in Hilo Hospital. He was born in Hilo. He is survived by parents Rudolph and Daisy Mae; brothers Wayne, John K., Chad K. and Nathan M. Awai, and grandparents Henry and Beverly Kamohai and Robert and Daisy Naihe. Call from 6 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Keaukaha Ward. Services: 10 a.m. Thursday at the church. Call after 8 a.m. Burial: Homelani Memorial Park. Aloha attire.
Denko Kaneshiro, 76, of Honolulu, a retired fire control technician at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, died Thursday in Straub Hospital. He was born in Honokaa, Hawaii. He is survived by wife Chiyoko; son Calvin T.; daughter Karen C.K. Rogers; brother Yasushige; sister Kiyoko Kim, and two grandchildren. Memorial services: 2 p.m. Saturday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Casual attire. No flowers.
Gideon K. Kaonohi, 80, of Waimanalo, a retired Marine machinist at Pearl Harbor, Shop 78, died Friday in Honolulu. He also worked for Hawaiian Dredging. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by sons Gideon Jr., Godfrey and Leighton; daughters Emogene Kaopua and Paulette Keopuhiwa; sister Minnie K. Nahoolewa, 18 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Services: 11:15 a.m. Friday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Waimanalo Ward. Call from 6 to 9 p.m. Burial: Hawaiian Memorial Park. Aloha attire.
James I. "Jimmy" Kaya, 89, of Honolulu, a retired maintenance supervisor for Pearl Country Club, died last Tuesday at home. He was born in Ewa. He is survived by wife Thelma K.; daughters Faith T. Inoshita and Sharlene N. Kaya; sons Richard M. and Robert I.; sister Nancy, and four grandchildren. Memorial services: noon Thursday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Casual attire. No flowers.
Cordelia Seu Kong, 81, of Honolulu, a retired schoolteacher from Stevenson Intermediate School, died Thursday in Kaiser Hospital. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by husband Albert; son Allen; daughters Marian and Laura; sisters Dora Seu, Violet Mau, Hazel Fantz and Elsie Young, and three grandchildren. Memorial family gathering: 10 a.m. Thursday at Community Church of Honolulu. Aloha attire.
Domingo G. "Ingo" Loniza, 87, of Kekaha, Kauai, a retired irrigator with Kekaha Sugar Co., died April 10 in Kauai Veterans Hospital. He was born in the Philippines. He is survived by wife Francisca; daughters Ramona Wiles, Mary Ann Rocero and Sandra Wabinga; son Domingo "Joe" Jr.; brother Leon Luneza; sisters Veronica Aradanas and Marcela Pantaleon, and nine grandchildren. Services: 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Kekaha Methodist Church. Call after 9 a.m. Burial: Kekaha Public Cemetery.
Yoshimi Maeda, 88, of Kaneohe, a retired underwriter for Atlas Insurance Co. & Prudential Insurance Co., died April 10 in Castle Hospital. He was also a retired agriculture instructor at Benjamin Parker School and mathematics instructor at McKinley High School. He was born in Ewa. He is survived by wife Tsutoko; sons Drs. Ronald and Melvin; daughter Barbara Fujimoto; sister Aiko Fujikawa, and seven grandchildren. Services: 6 p.m. Thursday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Call after 5 p.m. Cremation to follow. Private inurnment. Casual attire. No flowers.
Elise M. McGann, 68, of Honolulu died Wednesday in Kapiolani Hospital at Pali Momi. She was born in Carbonear, Newfoundland, Canada. She is survived by husband Robert; son R.G.; mother Hazel Wareham; sister Gladys Mercer, and brother George Butt. Services: 6 p.m. Monday at Borthwick Mortuary, mauka chapel. Call from 4 to 7 p.m. Cremation to follow. Inurnment at a later date. Aloha attire. No flowers.
Chiyono Morikawa, 91, of Waimea, Kauai, died April 4 in Kauai Veterans Hospital. She was born in Makaweli, Kauai. She is survived by sons Alvin, James and Stephen; daughter Esther Fukuda; brother Gunichi Yasunaka; sisters Edna Okumura and Janet Okikawa, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Private services.
Sachie Ohara, 79, of Honolulu, an employee of housekeeping services for Liberty House, died Saturday in Queen's Hospital. She was born in Ewa. She is survived by daughters Marilyn Clark and Sharyn Kamihara; brothers Stanley and Kenneth Ito; sister Edna Tomita, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Services: 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Call after 7:30 p.m. Casual attire. No flowers.
George W. Owens, 72, of Kapolei, an aviation electrician for the U.S. Navy, died Saturday in Kapolei. He was born in Lockport, N.Y. He is survived by wife Phyllis; son Douglas; daughters Deena Dudley and Donna Meskimen; brothers Kenneth and James; sister Ruth Craddock, eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Private services. No flowers. Donations suggested to the American Cancer Society Central Leeward Unit, 98-029 Hekaha St., Aiea 96701.
Florence A. Oyabu, 80, of Wailuku, a retired trimmer in the test laboratory at the Maui Pineapple Co. lab department, died Saturday in Maui Memorial Hospital. She was born in Puunene, Maui. She is survived by husband James; son Myron; daughters Charlotte Orikasa and Winifred Britt; brothers Mitsuo and Lloyd Watanabe, seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Services: 5 p.m. Thursday at Nakamura Mortuary. Call after 4 p.m. Reception to follow. Casual attire. No flowers.
Mary M. Pedro, 82, of California died Friday in Nebraska. She was born in Makaweli, Kauai. She is survived by son Joseph; daughter Carol Ann Price; brother Frank Texeira; sisters Catherine Peiler and Nora Gonsalves, five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Services: 9:30 a.m. tomorrow at Hawaiian Memorial Park Mortuary. Call after 8:30 a.m. Burial to follow. Casual attire.
Angeline K. Pelio, 78, of Kailua died Wednesday at home. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by daughters Ida Baker and Joann Prescott, 27 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Memorial services: 10:45 a.m. Thursday at Mililani Downtown Mortuary. Call after 9 a.m. Inurnment: National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl.
Numerriano J. Perlac, 88, of Waianae died Friday in St. Francis-West Hospital. He was born in the Philippines. He is survived by children Irene Lewis, Stella Patinio, Peter Patinio, Cece Silva, Cecelia Kapihe, Brenda Winn and Joseph and James Perlac, 17 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Services: Friday at Borthwick Mortuary. Call from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Burial: Hawaiian Memorial Park. Casual attire.
Gordon M. Sing, 76, of Aiea died Friday in St. Francis Hospice. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Beatrice; daughter Liane; sons Randy and Mike "Meg"; sister Luka Nakoa; brothers Phillip, William, Albert and Francis, and a granddaughter. Committal services: 9:30 a.m. Thursday at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl. Aloha attire. No flowers.
Malososo'o M. Taumua, 84, of Aiea died last Tuesday in Kapiolani Hospital at Pali Momi. She was born in American Samoa. She is survived by husband Tanu; sons Tuumalo Taumua and Moeone Faletogo; daughters Elizabeth Sataraka and Fenunuivao Moalii, 19 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Services: 10 a.m. Thursday at Moanalua Congregational Christian Church. Call after 9 a.m. Burial: Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery.
Haruji "Yama" Yamaguchi, 76, of Aiea, a retired warehouse manager for International Trading Pacific Inc., died Thursday in Kapiolani Hospital at Pali Momi. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Alice; sons Leslie, Wayne and Keith; brother Melvin; sisters Margaret "Chiko," Shige "Betty" and Tomi Yamaguchi and Chiyo Keahi, and two grandchildren. Services: 7 p.m. Friday at Borthwick Mortuary. Call 6 to 9 p.m. Services: 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Call from 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Burial: Sunset Memorial Park. Casual attire.
Charles A. Yoshioka, 60, of Kapaa, Kauai, who worked for the state library services, died Saturday in Kapiolani Hospital at Pali Momi. He was born in Lihue. He is survived by wife Irene; sons Dwight and Dwayne; brother Masaichi; sisters Clara Ishii, Elsie Fuse and Karen Fujimori, and a grandson. Memorial services: 4:30 p.m. Friday at Kapaa Jodo Mission. Inurnment at a later date. No flowers.
You can also search the Hawaii State Library System's
Hawaii Newspaper Index online for older obituaries at:
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/education/hcc/library/hiindex.html
The index, which goes back several decades,
is available via Telnet software.
