Kimi Amemiya, 96, of Mililani, a seamstress at Aloha Tailor Shop in Wahiawa, died June 4. She was born in Kawailoa, Hawaii. She is survived by sons Keiji, Ronald and Clayton; daughters Grace Sakai, Kay Griffith, Hoshiko Miike and Brenda Henry; 21 grandchildren; and 32 great-grandchildren. Private services.Fuyuko "Jean" Aoki, 80, of Kealakekua, Hawaii, a retired barber for Aoki Barber Shop, died Saturday in Kona Community Hospital. She was born in Hanapepe, Kauai. She is survived by sons Edward, Glenn and Stacey; sister Beatrice Kishida; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Services: 1 p.m. Sunday at Kona Hongwanji Mission. Call after noon. Casual attire. No flowers.
Ehino Richard Gamayo Baniaga, 89, of Kona, Hawaii, a Huehue Ranch employee and a retired laborer for Kona Property Management's Coffee, Macadamia Nuts, and Avocado Farm, died last Friday in Kona Community Hospital. He was born in the Philippines. He is survived by sons Ronald, Hansel, Michael and Earl L.; daughters Rita Carvalho, Darlyne Puou, Valerie Winkler, Nancy-anna Bautista and Lillian and Paulette; 42 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren. Services: 10 a.m. Saturday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Keei Ward. Call after 8 a.m. Burial to follow at Kaohe Cemetery in Kaohe, South Kona, Hawaii. Casual attire.
Arnold Maurice Baptiste Sr., 67, of Honolulu, founder and chairman of Hawaii Management Alliance Association and president and chief executive officer of Hawaii Pacific Medical Referrals, died Wednesday. He was born in Kapaa, Kauai. He is survived by wife Emily Marciel-Baptiste, sons Arnold Jr. and Marc, daughter Deborah Harris, brother Bryan, sisters Irma M. and Toni J., and five grandchildren. Services: 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Borthwick Mortuary. Call after 5 p.m. Additional services: 10 a.m. Friday at the mortuary. Call after 9 a.m. Burial: 11 a.m. at Hawaiian Memorial Park.
Jozef Bruyninckx, 76, of Kailua-Kona, a retired owner of Joe's Type Shop, died Saturday in North Hawaii Community Hospital. He was born in Belgium. He is survived by sons Ed, John, Larry and Ron; and five grandchildren. Services held.
Virginia C. DuBois, 90, of Makawao, Maui, a homemaker, died Tuesday in Olinda, Maui. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by husband Charles F., sons Michael C. and John C. Baldwin, five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Graveyard services: 4 p.m. at Makawao Cemetery. Donations suggested to Hui No'eau.
Frances R. Edica, 79, of Makakilo, a pastor with Door of Faith Church, died Saturday in St. Francis-West Medical Center. She was born in Washington, D.C. She is survived by son Matthew Sheffield, brother T.Z. Clark, sister Buelh Beavers, four grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild. Services: noon Friday at Borthwick Mortuary. Call after 10:30 a.m. Burial: 2 p.m. at Hawaiian Memorial Park.
Clarence Kanani Fox Sr., 74, of Pearl City, a retired federal naval base policeman at Pearl Harbor, died Monday. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Margaret, sons Clarence Jr. and Russell, daughter Darlene Harbour, stepson Wayne Uyemura and six grandchildren. Services: 6 p.m. Wednesday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Call after 5 p.m. Aloha attire. No flowers.
William "Bill" Porter Hodgins, 87, of Kona, Hawaii, a retired Hawaiian Pineapple Co. personnel director, died June 11 at his home. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Wilda, sons Willam A. and Thomas W., daughters Mary H. Higgins and Hannah E.H. Hose, brother Stanley, 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday at Christ Church Episcopal in Kealakekua, Kona. Donations suggested to Christ Church Community Center Building Fund, P.O. Box 545, Kealakekua 95650.
Wilfred Leong, 72, of Las Vegas, husband of state Rep. Bertha F.K. Leong, died Saturday. He is also a retired Kahala dentist and a Purple Heart recipient. He was born in Hawaii. He is also survived by daughters Dr. Patricia and Dr. Cynthia Leong and Caroline Dang, sons Dr. Jonathan and Dr. Thomas, brother Godfrey and sister Laura Lee. Mass: 10 a.m. Wednesday at Star of the Sea Church. Inurnment: 11:30 a.m. at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl.
Bernice Evelyn McClellan, 58, of Waipahu, a homemaker, died Saturday in Tripler Army Medical Center. She was born in Bend, Ore. She is survived by son Del Ray, daughters Kristin Gallaway and Patty Pratt, mother Margaret Peasley, brother Owen Simon and sisters Barbara Beehn and Billie Jean Schults. Private services.
Shigeo Mori, 99, of Honolulu, a retired owner of Home Auto Glass Ltd., died June 7. He was born in Olaa, Hawaii. He is survived by wife Toshiko; sons Arthur and Paul; daughters Marjorie Warren, June Shida and Kay Kurio; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Private services.
Guillerma "Gima" Queypo Nacapuy, 87, of Waialua, died Saturday. She was born in the Philippines. She is survived by sons Genaro, Faustino and Antonio; daughters Esther Ramones, Gloria Nahinu and June Teixeira; 17 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. Mass: 11 a.m. Monday at St. Michael Church. Call after 9:30 a.m. Burial: 12:30 p.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Casual attire.
Helen Dennis Noel, 87, of Kailua-Kona, a retired manager of G. Fox and Co. department store, died June 12 in Kona Community Hospital. She was born in Bayonne, N.J. She is survived by daughter Barbara Runyon; son Harvey Noel; sisters Julia Stetz, Dorothy Kronicz, Irene Palowski and Florence Flannery; 12 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. Private services. Donations suggested to Kona Community Hospital, Hale Ohana Fund, 79-1019 Haukapila St., Kealakekua 96750.
Raymond Alston Pirtle Jr., 76, of Kailua died May 12 in Castle Medical Center. He was born in Tennessee. He is survived by brother Charles R. and companion Peggy I. Latham. Private services.
Anaelisse Camille Quesada, infant daughter of Antonio G. and Michele N. Quesada, died last Friday. She was born in Honolulu. She is also survived by paternal grandmother Remedios and maternal grandparents Douglas Coles and Erlinda Ritz. Services: 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Borthwick Mortuary. Burial: 1 p.m. Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery, Kaneohe.
Tamiko Sahara, 88, of Honolulu, a retired seamstress, died Wednesday in Kuakini Medical Center. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by son Norman M.; brother Jiro Sumida; sisters Ayako Nitta, Gladys Ko-yanagi, Florence S. Mitsunaga and Esther K. Suzuki; and two grandchildren. Services: 4 p.m. Tuesday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Casual attire. No flowers.
Arthur Kaukaohu Trask, 91, of Kauai, a lawyer, died June 3 in Wilcox Memorial Hospital in Lihue. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Muriel Oaks; sons Anthony "Tyke," Arthur Jr. "Pepe" and Alexander "Keahi"; daughters Celia Ontai, Claudia and Anneth "Anna"; brothers David and Valentine; sisters Cecilia Marciel, Isabelle Davis and Gladys; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Celebration of his life: 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 30 at Whalers Brew Pub in Lihue. Leis and loose flowers only.
Deaths Elsewhere
Morris Berman, whose photograph of bloodied New York Giants quarterback Y.A. Tittle kneeling in the end zone ranks among the most famous images in sports history, died Sunday in Arizona. He was 92.
While working for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1964, Berman captured the shot after the quarterback was sacked by Pittsburgh Steeler John Baker. The photo was taken in the last game of Tittle's career.
"His photo editor wouldn't run the picture in the newspaper because it didn't have any action in it," said Greg Garneau, executive director of the National Press Photographers Association.
The photograph was subsequently published and became a sports icon.
It won the National Headliner award for best sport photograph in 1964 and now hangs in the National Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
Mary A. Dieli, who designed some of the first software to make computers easier to use, died last Friday in Washington state after an 18-month battle with breast cancer. She was 46.
Diell earned a doctorate in rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University before going to work at Apple Computer, where she helped design the Lisa operating system in the early 1980s.
Lisa was one of the first commercially available systems to move away from commands that had to be typed and often were difficult to remember, as in the old Microsoft MS-DOS system.
Dieli moved to Seattle in 1988 to establish two computer usability laboratories for the study of human-computer interaction at Microsoft Corp., and her work was used in designing the Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 user interfaces.
James Luisi, a former professional basketball player who turned to acting and became a regular on soap operas and on series including "The Rockford Files," has died. He was 73.
Luisi played two seasons with the Baltimore Bullets in the Basketball Association of America. After a short-lived basketball career, he studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
He began his acting career on the stage, appearing in Broadway's "The Soldiers," "Sweet Charity" and "Zorba."
After making the switch to television, where he appeared regularly in the soap operas "Another World" and "Days of Our Lives," he made cameo roles in numerous shows such as "Magnum P.I.," "Kojak" and "Hart to Hart." He was best known for his long-running role as Lt. Doug Chapman on television's "The Rockford Files."
Luisi played George Washington in the NBC special "First Ladies' Diaries: Martha Washington."
He also was given his own television show in 1983 called "Renegades," which lasted one season.
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.