Manabu Akagi, 79, of Kalaheo, Kauai, a retired Kauai Electric employee, died Wednesday in Wilcox Memorial Hospital. He was born in Eleele, Kauai. He is survived by wife Fumie, sons Jessie and Blaine, brothers Tadakazu, Takashi, Sachio and Jitsuo; sister Hamako Yoshida; and two grandchildren. Services: 2 p.m. Friday at Garden Island Mortuary. Call after 1:30 p.m. Interment to follow at Kauai Veterans Cemetery. Casual attire.Robert Abelardo Berasis, 67, of Honolulu, a retired U.S. Post Office mail handler, died March 5 in St. Francis Hospice-West. He was born in Lihue. He is survived by wife Laverne, sons Robert J.K. and William, daughter Roberta Wong, hanai daughter Angel Dykestra, brother Ramon, six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and three hanai grandchildren. Services: 10 a.m. Friday at Diamond Head Mortuary. Call after 8 a.m. Burial: 1:30 p.m. at Greenhaven Memorial Park. Casual attire.
Henry Furtado, 90, of Honolulu, died March 7 in Kaiser Medical Center. He was born in Ahualoa, Hawaii. He is survived by son Samuel H., daughter Marilyn Domingo, brother Clarence, sister Alice Enos, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Mass: 11 a.m. Friday at Blessed Sacrament Church, 2124 Pauoa Road. Call after 10:30 a.m. Inurnment to follow at Diamond Head Memorial Park.
Mercedes Villa Hernandez, 88, of Honolulu, died March 8. She was born in the Philippines. She is survived by sons Fellemone, Juanito and Admer; daughters Susana Bumanglag, Aileen Villanueva and Lilia Hernandez; sister Lapaz Villa; 15 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren. Services: 7 p.m. Friday at Nuuanu Mortuary, East Chapel. Call after 6 p.m. Mass: 9:30 a.m. Saturday at St. John the Baptist. Call after 8:30 a.m. Burial: 11 a.m. at Valley of the Temples. Casual attire.
Margaret A. Ibarra, 74, of Nanakuli, a retired Navy Public Works employee at Pearl Harbor, died March 9 at home. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by sons Ronald Moniz, Duane "Kanoe" Ibarra and Wayne "Kamanu" Ibarra; 12 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren. Services: 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Borthwick Mortuary. Call after 8:30 a.m. Private burial. Aloha attire.
George Mitsumasa Ito, 74, of Pauoa, a retired Twentieth Century Furniture employee, died Feb. 23 in Maluhia Nursing Home. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by brothers Walter and Stanley, and sisters Fumiye Nakano, Harriet Takeuchi and Kazue Ekimoto. Private services. Inurnment to be held at a later date. No monetary offerings.
Bernard Ailau "Boogie" Kauai, 67, of Honolulu, a retired boiler room engine mechanic and merchant seaman, died Feb. 25 in Honolulu. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by brother Roy K. Piiohia and sister Thelma S. Turner. Services: 10 a.m. Saturday at Hawaiian Memorial Park. Call after 8:30 a.m. Reception to follow. Private inurnment to be held at a later date. Casual attire. No flowers.
Verna Lehua Tsuruko Miller, 67, of Kalapana, Hawaii, owner of Verna's Drive Inn, died Tuesday at home. She was born in Lanai City. She is survived by companion William "Billy Bob" Newell, son William Jr., daughters Carla Lino and Crystal Ah Yo, brothers Ling and Jerome Nakachi, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Services: noon Saturday at Dodo Mortuary. Call after 10 a.m. Scattering of ashes to follow at Kalapana. Casual attire. Donations suggested to Hospice of Hilo.
Fumiko Miyahira, 81, of Upper Waiehu, Maui, died Friday in Maui Memorial Medical Center. She was born in Wailuku. She is survived by husband Yasunobu; sons Lawrence and Earl; daughter Lois Hasegawa; brothers Takeo, Hideyasu, Seigi, George and William Higa; sisters Yoshiko Napihaa and Hiroko Fukuda; and six grandchildren. Services: 5 p.m. Wednesday at Nakamura Mortuary. Call after 4 p.m. Reception to follow service. Burial: 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Maui Memorial Park.
Fujiko Miyawaki, 95, of Honolulu, a homemaker, died March 8 in the Queen's Medical Center. She was born in Hiroshima, Japan. She is survived by son Dr. Edison H., daughters Edith T. Miyuki and Mary K. Miyawaki, five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Private services.
Harold Eichi Okino, 68, of Honolulu, a retired part-owner of Typographers Inc., died Thursday in the Queen's Medical Center. He was born in Hilo. He is survived by wife Lois Y. Takeuchi; sons Landon and Lon; daughter Harol Lyn Iwata; brothers Charles and Walter; sisters Hiroko Omura, Ruth Nakamura and Violet Hirata; and three grandchildren. Services: 4 p.m. Saturday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Call after 3 p.m. Casual attire. No flowers.
Wai Ching "Ahoy" Pang, 72, of Honolulu, a First Hawaiian Bank auditor, died last Monday. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Masako, brother Timothy Pang and sisters Shirley Higa and Phyllis Lau. Services: 6 p.m. Thursday at Nuuanu Mortuary. Aloha attire.
Milanio Salinas, 73, of Davenport, Calif., formerly of Haleiwa, a Pfyffer Associates employee, died March 6 in California. He was born in Haleiwa. He is survived by sisters Isabel O. Ham, Lucia S. Noneza and Lorita Tatayon. Services: 10 a.m. Thursday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, mauka chapel. Call after 8:30 a.m. Burial: 11 a.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Casual attire.
Kenichi Suehiro, 87, of Manoa, a retired Social Security Administration field supervisor and a U.S. Army veteran who served in World War II, died March 7 at home. He was born in Koloa, Kauai. He is survived by son Lester, daughters Carol Yasui and Fay Sugahara, sister Sallie Sato and five grandchildren. Services: 6 p.m. Friday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Call after 5 p.m. Aloha attire. No flowers.
Nancy Yuriko Vallesteros, 86, of Honolulu, a retired King's Bakery waitress, died Thursday at home. She was born in Kukuihaele, Hawaii. She is survived by son Ronald, two brothers, four sisters and two grandchildren. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at Borthwick Mortuary. Call after 8:30 a.m. Inurnment: 1 p.m. at Hawaiian Memorial Park. Casual attire.
Robert Bacilio Vallesteros, 86, of Honolulu, a retired federal government supply supervisor at Schofield, died Friday in St. Francis Hospice. He was born in Bacara, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. He is survived by son Ronald, three brothers and two grandchildren. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at Borthwick Mortuary. Call after 8:30 a.m. Burial: 2 p.m. at Hawaiian Memorial Park. Casual attire.
Linda Shigeko Yamada, 56, of Mililani, a Howard's Florist proprietress, died Tuesday in St. Francis Hospice-West. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by husband Howard F., daughters Shannon Flores and Lisa Anne Yamada, and brother Vernon Oato. Services: 6 p.m. Thursday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, mauka chapel. Call after 5 p.m. Casual attire. No flowers.
Masako Nakamura Yamasaki, 90, of Honolulu, a retired presser, died March 6 in Hale Nani Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. She was born in Waimanalo. She is survived by sons Clinton T. and Milton S., daughters Frances S. Lee and Eleanor Arakaki, brother Isami, sisters Shigeko Hirata and Asako Takakura, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. 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.