Dwight C. Steele / Labor representative
Noboru Asahina, 103, of Honolulu, a retired dentist, died July 10. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by son Dr. Sanford S.; daughters Alice A. Suyeoka, Jane S. Morikawa and Betty H. Honda; 10 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. Services: 6 p.m. Monday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary.Stephen Jacob Betsill, 47, of Wailuku will be remembered in services 11 a.m. tomorrow at First Assembly of God Cathedral of the Kings. Betsill was giving his relatives a tour of Maui when his single-engine airplane crashed Saturday afternoon in East Maui, killing all aboard. He was born in Texas and was the owner and vice president for sales and marketing for Betsill Construction Co. He is survived by wife Trudee, sons Jeremy and Alexander, daughters Abigail and Jillian, mother Geneva and brothers Doyle, Dwayne and Randy. No flowers. Donations suggested to Barnabas Foundation, care of First Assembly of God Cathedral of the Kings.
Joseph "Uncle Jo" Cabral, 65, of Waianae, a retired handyman, died July 1 in Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center. He was born in Eleele, Kauai. He is survived by wife Lisa Crawford; sons Joseph "Troy," Cedric, Antone "Tony," Gerald and Reginald; daughter Roxanne; brothers Antone "Tony" Jr., Abel and Thomas; sisters Marie Ferill and Nancy Morolt; mother of his children Maxine Kehiliolokai; 19 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Private services.
Gertrude E. Ezekiel, 91, of Waimea, Kauai, a high school home economics teacher, died Monday. She was born in Indonesia. She is survived by daughters Margaret E. Cull and Joyce Lachman, and a grandchild. Services: 11 a.m. tomorrow at St. Michael and All Angeles Episcopal Church. Call after 10:30 a.m. Casual attire.
Luman Joseph Gesford, 72, of Hilo, a retired schoolteacher, died July 2 in Hilo Medical Center. He was born in Montrose, Pa. He is survived by wife May, sons Edward and David, daughters Gail Gesford and Janice Graham, four grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Private services.
Patricia Kwai Jun Goodness, 59, of Kaneohe, a retired State of Hawaii juvenile detention supervisor, died July 11. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by daughter Terrie L. Goodness-Palupe, son James W., sister Paulette Hopkins, brother Smitty Wong, half brother Danny Wong, stepsister Doreen T. Wright, stepmother Barbara Wong and seven grandchildren. Services: 11 a.m. Thursday at Hawaiian Memorial Park. Call after 10 a.m. Aloha attire.
Annie "Aunty Honey" Maliikapu Graffam, 75, of Wailuku died Sunday in Maui Memorial Medical Center. She was born in Waihee, Maui. She is survived by daughters Priscilla-May K. Taniguchi, Patricia-Ann U. Moore, Ivanelle K. Hollinger and Pamela L. Kahae; and sister Edith Kong. Services: 7 p.m. Monday at Norman's Chapel. Call after 6 p.m. Cremation to follow.
Nancy Michie Higa, 77, of Waimanalo, a retired Keolu Elementary School head custodian, died July 6 in Castle Medical Center. She was born in Hilo. She is survived by sons Jerry H. and Russell S.; daughter Charlene N.; brothers Eddie and Ron China; sisters Chizuko Kishimoto, Margaret Muramoto, Gladys China, Helen Manalo and Sue Kimura; and five grandchildren. Private services.
Sadako Higa, 79, of Honolulu, a homemaker, died July 10 in St. Francis Medical Center. She was born in Papaikou, Hawaii. She is survived by sons Glenn, Clyde, Eric and Myron; daughters Lynn Tanno and Debra Kerr; brothers Eisho and Yoshio Matsumoto; sisters Tsuruko Johnston and Sueno Lally; 14 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Services: 6 p.m. Tuesday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Call after 5 p.m. Casual attire.
Michie "Shizu" Itai, 96, of Honolulu, a former proprietor for Itai Store, died July 5 in Convalescent Center of Honolulu. She was born in Japan. She is survived by son Frank K.; daughters Kiyoko Omura, Marjorie Sakata, Patsy S. Goto, Kay Kobayashi and Joan and Margaret Itai; 23 grandchildren; and 35 great-grandchildren. Private services.
Blanche Fumi Kimura, 75, of Honolulu, a retired American Honda Motors data center supervisor, died July 8. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by husband Kiyoshi, sons Arthur S. and Clyde T.; daughters Susan K. Cruzada, Dale F. Kerpel, Lynn K. Muramoto and Jan K. Fukumoto; sister Joyce Fasi; and seven grandchildren. Services: noon tomorrow at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Inurnment: 10:30 a.m. Monday at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl. Casual attire. No flowers.
Kazuichi Kodama, 88, of Honolulu, a retired Gray Distributing Co. office manager, died June 25. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Edna; sons Michael, Gerald and Jon; sister Muriel Yoshimoto; and four grandchildren. Private services.
Ralph Yoshio Koge, also known as Yoshio Koge, 76, of Honolulu, a self-employed certified public accountant, died Monday in Kuakini Medical Center. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Emiko and sister Sadami Kawamoto. Services: 3:30 p.m. Monday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Casual attire. No flowers.
Esther A. MacMillan, 84, of Honolulu, a retired University of Wyoming Library archivist, died Tuesday in Honolulu. She was born in Huron, S.D. She is survived by son James B. MacMillan III, stepdaughter Ruth Pace, sister Mary K. Fogg, two grandchildren, two stepgrandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Mass: 10:45 a.m. Saturday at Blessed Sacrament. Call after 10:15 a.m. Inurnment to be held at a later date on the mainland. No flowers. Donations suggested to March of Dimes.
Betty Lou Baldwin McDowell, 77, of Eureka, Calif., a homemaker, died June 30 at home. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by husband Gerald, sons Paul R. Sedgwick and Ted M. Halliday, daughters Linda S. Taylor and Susan S. Poling, and six grandchildren. Services were held in California. Donations suggested to Hospice of Humboldt County, 2010 Myrtle Ave., Eureka, CA 95501-3322.
Harriet Tuck McShane, 89, of Honolulu and Waipahu, a homemaker, died July 11 in Waipahu. She was born in Hawaii. She is survived by four grandchildren. Graveside services: 9:45 a.m. Tuesday at Diamond Head Memorial Park. Casual attire.
Robert Englebert Muller, 52, of Mountain View, Hawaii, died July 11. He was born in Fresno, Calif. He is survived by son Paul W., sister Patricia Ann Silva and two grandchildren. Private services.
Lucia Ancheta Salvador, 81, of Honolulu died July 9. She was born in the Philippines. She is survived by husband Juan; sons Matt, Ronnie Sr., Cisco, Roland and Tony Ben; daughters Gorgonia Cadoy and Dionicia "Dee Dee" Hodges; sisters Mercedes Tenaja and Juanita Salvador; brother Jorge Ancheta; 13 grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; and a stepgreat-grandchild. Services: 7 p.m. Monday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, mauka chapel. Call after 6 p.m. Additional services: 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at the chapel. Call after 8:30 a.m. Burial: 11 a.m. at Mililani Memorial Park.
Bruno Siko, 82, of Mount Pleasant, Pa., formerly of Honolulu, retired from the Federal Aviation Agency, died June 29 in Mount Pleasant. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Dolores; sons Bruno Jr., Don and Mark; daughters Gerralyn "Candy" Siko and Charlene "Penny" Ikeda; and 12 grandchildren. Services were held in Mount Pleasant.
Masayuki Taguchi, 82, of Wailuku, owner of Masa's Furniture and Upholstery, died July 5 in Hale Makua, Kahului. He was born in Waikapu, Maui. He is survived by wife Isoyo; brothers Kazuma, Tooru, Akira and Sueichi Taguchi; and sisters Betty Cerritelli, Mitsue Goya and Doris Tanimoto. Private services.
Fujino Takeuchi, 89, of Keaau, Hawaii, a seamstress for the former Kamehameha Garment Factory, died Sunday. She was born in Kukaiau, Hawaii. She is survived by son Donald, daughter Lois Okino, brother Hiroshi Matsuura, sister Margaret Nagakura, 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Services: 4 p.m. Monday at Puna Hongwanji Mission. Call after 3 p.m. Seven-day service: 10 a.m. Tuesday at the mission. Urn burial: 1:30 p.m. at Homelani Memorial Park. Casual attire. No flowers.
Richard Shigeichi Uyeda, 67, of Pearl City died July 5 in Wahiawa General Hospital. He was born in Wailuku. He is survived by brother George T. and sisters Ethelyn E. Yamada and Diana S. Inouye. Private services.
Deaths Elsewhere
Richard W. De Haan, a religious broadcaster and creator of the "Day of Discovery" television program, died Tuesday in Michigan following a long battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 79.
"Day of Discovery" first aired in 1968 and is one of the nation's longest continuously broadcast television programs, the Grand Rapids Press reported Thursday.
De Haan's father, Martin, started the family's broadcast ministry in 1938, with his weekly radio program "Detroit Bible Class." The program's name was changed to "Radio Bible Class" in 1941, when it moved from a Detroit-area station to Grand Rapids.
When Martin De Haan died in 1965, Richard De Haan took over as president of his father's Grand Rapids-based Christian ministry.
James Heidrich, who was credited with changing the way margarine is made, died of heart failure Saturday at a care center in suburban Loveland, Ohio. He was 90.
Heidrich formerly owned the Miami Margarine Co., which made Nu-Maid brand margarine. He developed a margarine-making machine in the 1930s that later was adopted by producers around the world.
At a time when margarine was made by hand, Heidrich devised a machine similar to one that was used to cool and crystalize shortening.
Miami Margarine, which manufactured Nu-Maid and private-label brands, produced more than 10 million pounds of margarine with Heidrich's technology. The company was sold in 1993.
Paula McClure, an Emmy-winning television personality who founded a spa for women, died Wednesday in Texas after battling brain cancer. She was 40.
Known in the Dallas area as a co-host of "Good Morning Texas" on WFAA-TV for nearly three years in the late 1990s, McClure had a successful broadcasting career that included a stint on "Entertainment Tonight."
She founded the Paula McClure Women's Cancer Foundation, which provided research money for schools and doctors to study the brain and offered information about brain cancer, especially for women.
She won an Emmy Award for an interview with Barbara Walters while she was hosting "Good Morning Texas."
Jack Olsen, a former sheriff's deputy and journalist who won awards for his true-crime novels, died after suffering a heart attack at his island home in Puget Sound, Wash. He was 77.
Olsen had been a sheriff's deputy in Gilpin County, Colo., and also wrote for magazines including Time, Vanity Fair, Life and Sports Illustrated.
His account of a serial rapist in Wyoming, "Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell," won a 1990 Edgar Allan Poe award from the Mystery Writers of America.
Percy Ricks Jr., one of the first black noncommissioned officers in the Army, died at the Augusta Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in Georgia. He was 82.
Ricks, who died Sunday, tried to join the armed forces in 1941 when the Army was segregated.
In August 1942 he was drafted and by 1943 had become one of the youngest first sergeants in the Army. He was appointed to oversee the 8th Army Air Force in the U.S. Army Air Corps, which was stationed in Africa.
After the war, in 1946, he was put in charge of an integrated unit at the Army Pictorial Center in Long Island, N.Y.
In January a room at Fort Gordon's Signal Corps Museum was named in his honor.
Phil Roth, a character actor who appeared in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Catch-22," died of colon cancer Monday in California. He was 74.
Roth appeared in stage roles before landing guest TV shots on "Charlie's Angels," "Barney Miller," "Get Smart" and "Cagney and Lacey."
Among his film credits were Woolsey in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Harry and Tonto" and "What's Up Doc?" His last appearance was in the independent film "The League of the Old Men."
The Rev. David Toolan, a priest who wrote about religion and the environment, died Tuesday of colon cancer at a Jesuit infirmary in New York. He was 66.
Toolan was the author of "Facing West from California Shores" (1987), about contemporary spiritual movements, and "At Home in the Cosmos" (2001), in which he argued for a religion-based "new social contract with nature."
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.