Ruth Kanani Anderson, 83, of Honolulu, died Tuesday in St. Francis Hospice-West. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by sisters Adeline Enoka and Eleanor Lovell. Services: 1:30 p.m. Friday at Borthwick Mortuary. Call after 11 a.m. Burial: 3 p.m. at Hawaiian Memorial Park. Casual attire. No flowers.Kaipo Julian Baligad-Kahikina, 8, of Pepeekeo, Hawaii, died Feb. 9 in Kapiolani Medical Center. He was born in Hilo. He is survived by father Sam Kahikina; mother Angela Baligad; brothers Kekoa and Kaimana; sister Kahealani; grandparents Tom and Dolores Nelias and Leonora Baligad; and great-grandparent Virginia Gandall. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at Borthwick Hawaii Funeral Home in Hilo. Call after 9 a.m. Burial to follow at Alae Cemetery. Casual attire.
Loren "Butch" Flomer, 76, of Wilsonville, Ore., former owner of Home Furnishing and Appliance Store and a U.S. Navy Air Corps veteran who served in World War II, died Feb. 9 in Maui Memorial Medical Center. He was born in Linn, Kan. He is survived by wife Ardath; sons Tom Flomer and Scott and Mike McKennon; daughters Cindy Miller and Sandra Volk; sisters Viola Beck and Lorena Hill; and three grandchildren. Services to be held in Oregon.
Felix Clarence Freitas, 80, of Kaaawa, a retired Honolulu Fire Department captain, died Feb. 3 in St. Francis Medical Center. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Edith K.; son Douglas A.; daughters Barbara "Kaipopiolani" Freitas, Beverly M. Suenaga and Diane J. Lau; brothers Wilfred V. and Clyde; sister Carol A. Lee; 10 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Services: 7 p.m. Thursday at Borthwick Mortuary. Call after 6 p.m. Mass: 12:15 p.m. Friday at Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Call after 11 a.m. Burial: 2 p.m. at Hawaiian Memorial Park. Aloha attire.
Eduardo Ramil Galapon, 93, of Waipahu, a retired Lincoln Nakakura Construction Co. plasterer mason, died Jan. 28 in Straub Clinic & Hospital. He was born in the Philippines. He is survived by wife Norma; sons Richard and Raymond; daughters Normie Jean, Grace Melanie, Beatriz Gottlieb and Elizabeth Galapon; and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Services: 7 p.m. Friday at Nuuanu Mortuary. Call after 6 p.m. Mass: 10 a.m. Saturday at St. John the Baptist Church. Call after 9 a.m. Burial to follow at Valley of the Temples. Casual attire. No flowers.
John Rudolph Garzero, 86, of Haiku, Maui, a Trans World Airlines director of passenger sales, died Wednesday at home. He was born in San Francisco. He is survived by sons Michael and John, daughter Christina, brother Edward, 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Private services.
Tomiko Hamabata, also known as Lorraine Tomiko Hamabata, 78, of Kaneohe, formerly of Los Angeles, a retired Security Pacific National Bank computer specialist, died Feb. 8 in Kuakini Medical Center. She was born in Puunene, Maui. She is survived by sons Dudley K. and Leo K.; daughter Tamyra T. Ige; brother Charles T. Nouchi; sisters Tsuyami Suzuki, Patsy M. Imai and Tsugi Yoshimura; nine grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Services: 6 p.m. Friday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Call after 5 p.m. Aloha attire.
Dora Lau Ho, 86, of Honolulu, a retired financial officer for Pearl Harbor and Fort Shafter, died Feb. 5 in St. Francis Hospice-West. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by daughter Lavina Ho-Chow, sisters Elsie Lau-Chang and Barbara Lau-Wong, and two grandchildren. Services: 11:45 a.m. Saturday at Diamond Head Mortuary. Call after 10 a.m. Burial to follow at Diamond Head Memorial Park. Aloha attire.
Alfredo Yere Ilaban, 82, of Kahuku, a fruit farmer, died Jan. 31 at home. He was born in the Philippines. He is survived by wife Josefina; son Efren; daughters Pacita Velarde, Rose Corpuz, Nelly Dolores, Ofelia Pita and Aida Meneses; sister Teresita Dangcil; 19 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Services: 7 p.m. Friday at St. Roch Catholic Church in Kahuku. Call after 6 p.m. Mass: 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the church. Call after 9 a.m. Burial to follow at Hawaiian Memorial Park.
Dorothy Ahina Katsutani, 83, of Honolulu, a retired Waialae Country Club laundress, died Feb. 5 in the Queen's Medical Center. She was born in Kahului. She is survived by sons Sheldon, Calvin and Lloyd; daughter Winona; brother Norman Ahina; sister Leimomi Tokunaga; and four grandchildren. Services: 2 p.m. Sunday at Nuuanu Mortuary. Call after 12:30 p.m. Private burial. Casual attire.
Rose L.Y. Lee, 86, of Honolulu, died Feb. 9 in Kapiolani Medical Center at Pali Momi. She was born in China. She is survived by sons Clifford L.F. and Benson S.M., daughter Diana Chang and eight grandchildren. Private services.
Eperone Manu Sr., 63, of Ewa Beach, a retired Gate Gourmet employee, died Feb. 7 in Kapiolani Medical Center at Pali Momi. He was born in American Samoa. He is survived by sons Lee, Eperone Jr., Michael and Peter; daughters Asia T. Manu and Adrienne Falaniko; father Manu Faletui; mother Toatasi Faletui; brothers Laisene Gurr, and Faletui and Seta Manu; sisters Falemalama Taito, Naiaga Kereti, Rosalina Suesue, Poutasi Porotesano, Marina Manu and Sipua Leiato; and nine grandchildren. Services: 7 p.m. Thursday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, mauka chapel. Call after 6 p.m. Casual attire.
Maina Liana Matapua, 33, of Kodiak, Alaska, an All Alaskan Seafoods employee, died Feb. 2 in Kodiak. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by mother Charlotte; brothers Tom, John, Brian and Richard; and sisters Diane Porter and Bernadette Matapua. Services: 6 p.m. Thursday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, makai chapel. Call after 5 p.m. Aloha attire.
Warren Ray McCollum, 72, of Long Branch, N.J., a retired civil engineer, died Sept. 23 in Red Bank, N.J. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Catherine, sons David Scott and Boyd, and a grandchild. Services: 5 p.m. tomorrow at Thurston Memorial Chapel in Punahou School.
Katsunori Nakano, 79, of Honolulu, a retired general contractor for Katz Nakano Contracting and a Realtor, died Feb. 3 in the Queen's Medical Center. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by daughter Kathy T. Nishimoto, stepdaughter Aline Younge, brothers Keiji and Herbert, sister Annette Takaki and three grandchildren. Private services.
Tamiko Nakatsu, 89, of Mililani, formerly of Captain Cook, Hawaii, a retired Kona Shoe Store owner, died Feb. 7 in St. Francis-West Medical Center. She was born in Kohala, Hawaii. She is survived by daughters Shirley Nagai, Sylvia Chiang and Charlene Hayama; brother Norman Hiraoka; sisters Rachel Kimura, Kimiko Izawa and Yuriko Yokoyama; and five grandchildren. Private services.
Rebecca "Aunty Becky" Kapeka Palacat, 76, of Aiea, died Tuesday in Kapiolani Medical Center at Pali Momi. She was born in Kealakekua, Hawaii. She is survived by husband Joseph C. Sr.; sons William H., Abel W. Jr. and Ivan K. John; stepson Joseph C. Jr.; daughters Jean L. Kuahuia, Wanda Holi, Rita Bongo and Brenda H. Fischer; stepdaughter Elizabeth G.; brother Leonard Filomina; sisters Elizabeth Spitalsky, Julia Saranillio, Violet Santos, Lily Santiago, Ethel Keawe and Alberta Duarte; 30 grandchildren; 38 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren. Services: noon Wednesday at Mililani Downtown Mortuary. Call after 8:30 a.m. Burial: 2 p.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Casual attire.
Loretto Pao, also known as "Eto" and "Larry," 67, of Waialua, a retired federal government mason for Fort Shafter and Schofield Barracks, died Feb. 4 in Wahiawa General Hospital. He was born in Waialua. He is survived by wife Ruiko; sons Alton G., Mark A., Dean M. and Lance A.; daughter Laureen A. Cadiz; brother Marcello; sisters Dorothy Quizon and Philomena Verano; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Services: 7 p.m. Wednesday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, mauka chapel. Call after 6 p.m. Mass: 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Michael's Church, 67-390 Goodale Ave., Waialua. Call after 10 a.m. Burial: 12:30 p.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Casual attire.
May T. Sanchez, 74, of Honolulu, a retired Hawaiian Telephone Co. executive assistant, died Tuesday in the Queen's Medical Center. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by son Peter, daughters Thea Nieves and Donna Stevens, brother Chester Tatsumura, sister Eleanor Nakagaki and four grandchildren. Services: 4 p.m. Thursday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Call after 3 p.m. Aloha attire.
Joseph George Scholan, 86, of Honolulu and Naugatuck, Conn., a retired methods engineer, died Thursday in Straub Clinic & Hospital. He was born in Waterbury, Conn. He is survived by wife Adelle, son John, daughter Tricia Rowley, brother Marshall, four grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Services to be held in Connecticut.
Hiroko "Rose" Suzuki, 81, of Kahului, a Ben Franklin Store sales clerk, died Feb. 5 in Wailuku. She was born in Kahului. She is survived by brother Yoshiito Hanaoka. Private services.
Frederick Yoshito "Yolo" Ueki, 78, of Honolulu, a retired taxi driver for Moana Taxi, died Feb. 6 at home. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by sons Robert T. and Leslie M., and four grandchildren. Services: 6 p.m. Thursday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Call after 5 p.m. Aloha attire.
Syndey Hudson Walker, 70, of Santa Rosa, Calif., a homemaker, died Feb. 3 in Kamuela, Hawaii. She was born in California. She is survived by daughters Jennifer and Lyndsey, brother Jo Hudson and four grandchildren. Private services.
Masao "Richard" Yamaguchi, 82, of Honolulu, a retired city Public Works mechanic, died Jan. 18 in Hale Nani. He was born in Lahaina. He is survived by wife Mitsuko "Helen"; son Michael; daughter Joan; brother Kameo "Stanley" Miyamoto; sisters Kimiko "Irene" Takahashi, Miyoko Kaneshiro, Masako Suzuki and Itsuko Shigetani; and two grandchildren. Private services.
Gerard Anthony "Buddy" Zulueta, 48, of Honolulu, died Jan. 27 in Honolulu. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by daughter Acacia and brother Leonard. Private services.
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.