Honolulu resident Anna F. Lum was a rascal, say family members who describe her as the "sexy tutu." Lum died Sept. 2 at the age of 86 in Queen's Medical Center. Likable ‘bomber girl’ showed
her passion for lifeANNA F. LUM / 1915-2001
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By Kelliann Shimote
kshimote@starbulletin.comFamily members said that when Lum was in her 30s, she would dress in a hula skirt, a sarong and a flower in her hair to attract soldiers to the tattoo parlor she owned with her husband during World War II. She also was a pin-up "bomber girl."
"She had a likable personality," said her youngest sister, Ida Woosley.
"She wore provocative clothes. For us, it was ... not nice, but the sailors all liked it."
Woosley also remembers her sister getting arrested for wearing a G-string.
"That was just a real no-no," said Woosley. "She was one of those really daring persons."
Lum was born in Honolulu on March 30, 1915. She was schooled up to the sixth grade in Kakaako.
Then she moved to Tin Can Alley in Chinatown, where she was a taxi dancer for 10 years. Woosley said her sister would dance with men in a hall or a ballroom for scrip at 10 cents a dance.
Woosley said Lum helped her husband run the tattoo parlor and later retired around 1955.
"She was passionate for life and filled with it (life)," said Lum's granddaughter, A'Lynne Tam Uesugi.
Lum is survived by a brother, Henry Featheran; sisters Woosley, Eliza Olsen, Mary Smith and Antoinette Makanoa; daughters Joanna Momi McCallum, Allene F.L. Uesugi and Lana Fung Yau Lum Medeiros; son Kenneth M.L. Lum; 12 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
Friends may call on Thursday from 8:30 to 11 a.m. at Hawaiian Memorial Park Mortuary. Service begins at 9:30 a.m. and is followed by lunch. Inurnment at 1 p.m. at Diamond Head Memorial Park. The family requests casual attire.