Frances Orevillo Aiona, 55, of Keaau, Hawaii, a homemaker and former employee of Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corp., died last Wednesday. She also was an employee for the former Kona Sizzler. She was born in Puna, Hawaii. She is survived by sons Nathan and Alan Orevillo and Charles III and Dereklee Aiona; daughters Francine Orevillo and Lilith Aiona; hanai son James Smith; hanai daughters Ashley and Sierra Grammer and Jasmine and Jashell Smith; brothers Rogelio, Eugene Sr. and Ernesto Orevillo and Arsenio Jr. and Jeffrey Acob; sisters Mildred Morante, Solidad "Sally" Tagalicod, Juliet Marion, Carmen Fontes, Carol Roque and Norma and Sandra Acob; hanai sister Rosita Palisbo; and 15 grandchildren. Mass: 10:30 a.m. Sunday at Pahoa Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Call after 10 a.m. Casual attire. No flowers.Dante Pineda Asuncion, 52, of Long Beach, Calif., formerly of Wailuku, a Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Co. irrigator, died Feb. 28 in California. He was born in Agana, Guam. He is survived by wife Violeta B. Roque; daughters Kimberly A. Brown and Kischa M. Asuncion; mother Dominga P.; brothers Eduardo and Gerry; sisters Marilyn Arconado, Irene Tagudin, Leilani Delos Santos, Sandra Malasig, Tita Shadian and Gloria and Josephine Asuncion; and three grandchildren. Services: 7 p.m. Friday at St. Anthony Church. Call after 6 p.m. Mass: 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the church. Call after 10 a.m. Burial to follow at Maui Memorial Park.
Cornelio Baltisa Cabigas, 70, of Kahului, a Maui Pineapple Co. utility helper, died last Wednesday in Kahului. He was born in Hana, Maui. He is survived by wife Thecla, sons Jeffrey and Cornelio "Korn" "JR," sister Violet Quilt, three grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Services: 10:30 a.m. Friday at Rose of Sharon World Faith Center. Call after 9:30 a.m. Cremation to follow. Casual or Aloha attire. Leis welcome.
Harry Ah Kwai Ching, 90, of Honolulu, a retired Pearl Harbor ship fitter, died March 10 in Malama Ohana Skilled Nursing Facility. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Helen N.C., sons Roy W.M. and Irvin W.S., daughter Gail N.M. Nakamoto, brothers Norman O.Y. and Gilbert A.H., sisters Mae Weber and Martha Davis, six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Private services.
Roselani Ann De Mello, 62, of Kailua died March 10 in St. Francis Medical Center. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by sons Clarence, Jameson, Dean and Sean; daughters Roselani Potts and Melelani Lawrence; sisters Lorraine Johnasen, Virginia De Mello and Lourdes Imai; and nine grandchildren. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at St. John Vianney Church, 920 Keolu Drive, Kailua. Mass: 11:30 a.m. Call after 9:30 a.m. Private inurnment. Aloha attire. Flowers welcome.
Edwin Naoto Fujimoto, 73, of Wailuku, a carpenter and a U.S. Army veteran, died March 9 in Wailuku. He was born in Kealia, Kauai. He is survived by wife Winifred; sons Lance, Mark, Kevin and Paul; daughters Corinne Garcia, Phyllis Fujimoto and Ann Fennelly; brother Herbert Fujimoto; sisters Irene Kodama and Jean Iwamoto; 12 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Services: 7 p.m. Friday at Ballard Family Mortuary. Call after 6 p.m. Mass: 1:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Anthony Church. Call after 1 p.m. Burial at Maui Veterans Cemetery. Casual attire. Flowers welcome.
Edwin Hiroshi Fujita, 67, of Hilo, a retired GTE Hawaiian Tel Co. communication technician, died Saturday at home. He was born in Hilo. He is survived by wife Kikue; daughters Gail Izumigawa, Joann Fujita and Coreen Nishimura; mother Shizue; sister Kathryn Toyama; and two grandchildren. Services: 5 p.m. Monday at Dodo Mortuary. Call after 4 p.m. Burial: 11 a.m. Tuesday at Hawaii Veterans Cemetery No. 2. Casual attire. No flowers.
Shirley Leinani Gonsalves, 58, of Kaneohe, a retired GTE Hawaiian Telephone Co. switchboard operator, died last Wednesday in Kaiser Medical Center. She was born in Hilo. She is survived by son Mitchell; daughter Christl Miyashiro; and brothers Melvin, Tommy and Lenny Castro. Services: 6:30 p.m. Sunday at Mililani Downtown Mortuary. Call after 5:30 p.m. Burial: 11 a.m. Monday at Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery, Kaneohe. Aloha attire. No flowers.
Takashi "Taka" Harai, 81, of Kealakekua, Hawaii, a retired Aloha Airlines ticket agent and a U.S. Army veteran, died Sunday in Kona Community Hospital. He was born in Honalo, Hawaii. He is survived by wife Sachiko, son Gordon, daughters Darlene Kirihara and Marilyn Geffs, sister Kay Sato, four grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Services: 5 p.m. tomorrow at Kona Daifukuji Soto Mission in Honalo. Call after 4 p.m. Casual attire. No flowers.
Robert Hiroshi Kakuno, 61, of Honolulu died Feb. 23 in Honolulu. He is also survived by seven grandchildren. Services: 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Island Family Christian Church, 3375 Salt Lake Blvd. Call after 1 p.m. Private scattering of ashes to be held on Maui at a later date. The mortuary provided incorrect information for an obituary published Saturday.
Fusae "Bessie" Kawasaki, 87, of Honolulu, a retired seamstress, died March 11. She was born in Waimanalo. She is survived by husband Robert, son Randall "Randy," daughters Myrna Matsuki and Judy Uejo, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Services: 4 p.m. Saturday at Nuuanu Mortuary. Casual attire. No flowers.
Stanford Kuhea Kelii Jr., 45, of Littleton, Colo., an employee for Comcast, formerly AT&T, died Feb. 26 at home. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by sons Stanford III and Spencer K.; daughters Ku'uipo Salva, Alexys K.A. Kelii and SiLes Renee Alcaraz; brother David Kelii; sisters Mona Duckworth, Lahela Delos Santos, MaryAnn Christian and U'ilani De Silva; and two grandchildren. Services: 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, mauka chapel. Call after 9:30 a.m. Burial: 12:30 p.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Casual attire.
Hannah Leilani Keliihoomalu, 82, of Kahala, a retired deputy director for the former state Department of Regulatory Agencies, died last Wednesday in Mililani. She was born in Kapaa, Kauai. She is survived by sons Kentworth and Howard, daughter Karla Akiona, stepdaughters Velma Choy and Ordis Keliihoomalu, sisters Rebbecca Williams and Lillian Boss, brother Rudolph Prigge, nine grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at the Mililani Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Call after 9 a.m. Burial: 1 p.m. at National Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl. Aloha attire.
Sally Kinoe Kohatsu, 81, of Wahiawa, a retired cook, died March 10 in Kaiser Medical Center. She was born in Ewa. She is survived by husband Gary N.; sons Wesley, Eldon and Garret; daughter Sharleen Isoshima; brothers Larry, Kenneth and Eddie Igarashi; sisters Esther Kono, Betty Black and Evelyn Blaylock; five grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren. Private services.
Patricio Licayan Sr., 78, of Kekaha, Kauai, a U.S. Army veteran, died Saturday in Kauai Veterans Memorial Hospital. He was born in the Philippines. He is survived by wife Emalia, sons Patricio Jr. and Samuel, hanai son Joseph and three grandchildren. Visitation: 6-9 p.m. tomorrow at Borthwick Kauai Mortuary. Services: 1 p.m. Friday at Waimea Hawaiian Church. Call after 9 a.m. Burial to follow at the Kauai Veterans Cemetery.
Kiyoko Matsuura, 82, of Kapaa, Kauai, a Kapaa High and Elementary School cook, died Saturday in Mahelona Samuel Memorial Hospital. She was born in Makaweli, Kauai. She is survived by sons Norman and Rod "Bronco"; daughter Lei Odani; brothers Sei, "Boxer," Shigeo and Ikuo Matsuda; sisters Nan Oyakawa and Miki Nishikawa; nine grandchildren; and two-great grandchildren. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday in All Saints Church in Kapaa. Call after 10 a.m. Casual attire.
Richard Milikaa "Dynamite" Mizuta, 59, of Honolulu, a California carpenter, died March 6 in Honolulu. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by sons Eli and Kaleinui; daughter Lahilahi Mizuta-Fox; mother Abbie K. Waggoner; sisters Abbie Pedro, Lovey Offerle and Rosella and Valerie Waggoner; and eight grandchildren. Services and scattering of ashes: 7:30 a.m. tomorrow at Waikiki Beach, in front of the Aloha Beach Stand by the Sheraton Moana Hotel. Casual attire.
Seichi Miyasato, 87, of Kapaa, Kauai, a County of Kauai laborer, died Thursday in Wilcox Memorial Hospital. He was born in Polihale, Kauai. He is survived by wife Kiyoko, sons Benjamin and Brian, daughters Marjorie Alfieri and Violet West, brother Robert, sisters Masako Inouye and Molly Hillman, and five grandchildren. Services: 3 p.m. Saturday at Garden Island Mortuary. Casual attire. No flowers.
Kinuyo Mizutani, 92, of Lihue, a homemaker, died March 10 in Wilcox Memorial Hospital. She was born in Lihue. She is survived by sons Charles and Warren, daughter Dorothy Miyahara, 16 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Private services.
Kenneth Patrick Moniz, 65, a retired Hawaiian Bitumuls Paving Co. truck driver, died March 8 in Wahiawa General Hospital. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Edith K. "Tooty"; sons David P. "Kawika," Rodman K. "Rod," Keoki L. and Eric A. "Baboo"; sister Mildred Parker; and five grandchildren. Services: noon Friday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, mauka chapel. Call after 11 a.m. Inurnment: 12:30 p.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Casual attire.
Helen Hatsue Nakama, 86, of Honolulu, a retired seamstress, died Friday in Straub Clinic and Hospital. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by daughter Beverly S. Nishino; brothers Daniel and James Ige; sisters Cara Nishihara, Sumi Nascimento, Sue Santo and Margaret Ige; and two grandchildren. Services: 2 p.m. Saturday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Casual attire.
Serafina R. Ocera, 88, of Kailua, a Nana's Kitchen owner, died Sunday in Aloha Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is survived by husband Joseph, daughters Dolores Minton and Rosemary Correa, sister Frances Vigueras, seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Mass: 11 a.m. tomorrow at St. John Vianney Catholic Church. Call after 10 a.m.
Evangeline Martins "Evan" Pacheco, 86, of Kaneohe, a retired Dole Cannery supervisor, died last Wednesday. She was born in Waialua. She is survived by daughter Barbara Baldauf, sister Florence Cazinha, four grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. Mass: 10 a.m. Monday at St. Ann's Church in Kaneohe. Call after 9 a.m. Burial: 11 a.m. at Valley of the Temples. Aloha attire.
Pauline Ferrer Padilla, 71, of Hanapepe, Kauai, a retired Waiohai/Poipu Beach Resort laundry supervisor and a Roberts Hawaii Handy Van aide, died March 8 in Dagupan City, Pangasinan, the Philippines. She also was a state Kauai Adult and Community Services Unit senior companion. She was born in Tayug, Pangasinan, the Philippines. She is survived by sons Eustaquio Jr. and Joseph; daughters Aida Cruz, Gloria Ramirez, Grace Padilla and Becky Komaki; brother Alex Ferrer; sisters Melicia DeGuzman and Clarita Ferrer; hanai son Gil Aguilar; hanai daughters Lil Henricksen and Yvette Cadawas; and seven grandchildren. Visitation: 5-8 p.m. Sunday and 9 a.m. Monday at Garden Island Mortuary. Burial to be held at Kauai Memorial Gardens. Casual attire.
Elizabeth Uilani Saffery, 43, of Lower Waiehu, a tour driver for Ekahi Tours, died Thursday in Kula, Maui. She was born in Wailuku. She is survived by mother Ruth S. Keahi; brothers Michael, Bruce and William Keahi and Eugene Saffery Sr.; and hanai sister Carrie Woodall-Pike. Services: 1 p.m. Saturday at Maluhia Church, 112B Lower Waiehu Beach Road. Scattering of ashes to be held at sea.
Dorothy Landgren "Dodo" Souza, 75, of Kaneohe, a homemaker, died Saturday in Castle Medical Center in Kailua. She was born in Williston, N.D. She is survived by husband Donald Jay, son Donn J., daughters Dayna Souza and Donnell Nicholas, sisters Judy Perkinson and Maxine Teixeira, and three grandchildren. Services: 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at Hawaiian Memorial Park. Call after 5:30 p.m. Private inurnment to be held at a later date. Casual attire. No flowers. Donations suggested to Epilepsy Foundation of Hawaii.
Masayoshi Tomita, 89, of Hilo, a retired carpenter, died Monday in Hilo Medical Center. He was born in Hilo. He is survived by wife Yoshie; sons Roy and Errol; daughter Sharon Ito; brothers Isao and Hideo; sisters Fumiko Mashiba, Tsuyako Ogi and Mitsue Matoi; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Services: 5 p.m. Friday at Hilo Meishoin Mission. Call after 4 p.m. Burial to be held at Homelani Memorial Park. Casual attire.
Shawn Ken Yamanouchi, 32, of Las Vegas, formerly of Laupahoehoe, Hawaii, a guest services representative for Treasure Island Resort in Las Vegas, died last Wednesday in Victorville, Calif. He was born in Honokaa, Hawaii. He is survived by parents Haruo and Elaine; brothers Corey, Daryl and Todd; and sister Lori Kobayashi. Services: 5 p.m. Friday at Dodo Mortuary. Call after 4 p.m. Casual attire. No flowers.
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.