Margaret Lee Ako, 83, of Honolulu, a retired Kaneohe Marine Base employee, died last Tuesday in St. Francis Medical Center. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by husband Lawrence; sons Dr. Harry and Dr. Eric; daughter Laurene; sisters Gladys Ing, Dorothy Goo and Marion Liu; brother Dr. Chung T. Lee; and four grandchildren. Services: 12:30 p.m. Friday at Community Church of Honolulu, 2345 Nuuanu Ave. Call after 11 a.m. Private internment held at Hawaiian Memorial Park. Aloha attire. No flowers.Marian Bernice De Luz, 54, of Honolulu, a retired dry cleaner, died Aug. 26 in Queen's Medical Center. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by brother Melvin. Services: 11 a.m. Monday at Diamond Head Mortuary. Call after 9 a.m. Aloha attire.
Arlene Kam Chin Fong, 77, of Honolulu, a retired Bank of Hawaii loan clerk, died Aug. 24 at home. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by husband Richard, sons Glennard and Randall, sisters Alice Ho and Marian Young, and four grandchildren. Services: 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Diamond Head Mortuary. Call after 10 a.m. Burial to follow at Diamond Head Memorial Park. Casual attire.
Halo Takashi Hirose, 79, of Honolulu, a retired chief probation officer for the First Circuit Court, died Aug. 24 in Straub Clinic and Hospital. He was born in Puunene, Maui. He is survived by wife Kiyomi, daughter Sono Hirose-Hulbert, sisters Harriet Uchigaki and Yaeno Hirose, and two grandchildren. Services: 4 p.m. Saturday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary.
Hayward Elekine Julio, 31, of Waipahu, a roofer, died Aug. 2. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Peneueta "Pene" Ofagalilo, son Jayward, daughters Shanice and Jannice, mother Malia Tuvale, brothers Bernard and Larry, sister Julia and grandmother Pepe Tuvale. Services: 10 a.m. tomorrow at Sunset Memorial Park, Garden Crypts.
Toshio "Dollar" Kanda, 75, of Honolulu, retired from the naval base police at Pearl Harbor, died Aug. 21 in Hale Nani Rehabilitation and Nursing Facility. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Nobuko, son Dave, daughters Lori Ishikawa and Gaylyn Garcia, brothers Takeo "Topsy" and Soto, sister Yuri Yuwasa and seven grandchildren. Private services.
Marion "Mrs" Chiseyo Kuraoka, 84, of Waialua, a retired seamstress, died Aug. 22. She was born in Hawaii. She is survived by sons Keith and Lyle, daughter Jean, stepson Harold, stepdaughters Margie Fujiwara and Christina Okimura, brother Ben Ogawa, sister Ayako Date, four grandchildren, step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren. Services: 6:30 p.m. Friday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, mauka chapel. Call after 5:30 p.m. Casual attire. No flowers.
Ignatius Peter "Tiger" Lopez Sr., 83, of Waimanalo, a retired Matson Navigation Co. senior stevedore superintendent and former Castle and Cooke employee, died Aug. 24 in Kailua. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by son Blaise M. Sr.; daughter Josephine Alameda; brothers Alvin, Christopher and Louis; 11 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren. Mass: 1:30 p.m. Friday at St. George Catholic Church in Waimanalo. Call after 11:30 a.m. Burial to follow at Hawaiian Memorial Park. Aloha attire.
Helen Teruko Morishige, 87, of Aiea, a retired Luzier's Cosmetics consultant, died Aug. 24. She was born in Kapoho, Hawaii. She is survived by son Brian; daughter Susan; brothers Toshio, Masayuki and Hideo Honda; sisters Tamiko Honda and Harriet Matsuura; and three grandchildren. Private services.
Rachel Kaleikula Thomas, 84, of Kukuihaele, Hawaii, a retired taro farmer, died Aug. 25 in Hale Anuenue Restorative Care Center. She was born in Waipio Valley, Hawaii. She is survived by sons Byron, Harry Young, and Abraham, Clement, Mana and Milton Lau Kong; daughters Daisy Domingo, Norma "Nani" Loo, Jolene Reucia and Roslynne "Peachy" Takushi; 36 grandchildren; and 53 great-grandchildren. Visitation: 5-8 p.m. Friday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Honokaa Ward, and all night Friday at the home of Jolene Reucia in Kukuihaele. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at the church. Call after 9 a.m. Burial to follow at Kukuihaele County Cemetery. Casual attire.
Irene Weaver, 82, of Chalan Pago, Guam, formerly of Kaaawa, died last Tuesday at home. She is survived by daughters Beverlea Weaver and Barbara Kanda, brother Thomas Kenney and five grandchildren. Additional information was provided for an obituary published Thursday.
Peter Quon Chew Young, 85, of Honolulu, a retired federal worker and owner of Sun Chee Ying Bakery, died Aug. 23 in St. Francis Medical Center. He was born in Wailua, Maui. He is survived by wife Phyllis, sons Clayton and Maurice, brother Brother Anthony Young, sisters Antarina Moore and Victoria Kanoa, and three grandchildren. Services: 10:30 a.m. Friday at Nuuanu Memorial Park Mortuary. Call after 9 a.m. Mass: noon at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace Church. Burial to follow at Diamond Head Memorial Park. Casual attire.
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.