Obituaries

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Martin Mateo Barit
March 2, 2007
Martin Mateo Barit, 73, of Waipahu, a retired golf course landscaper, died in Ewa Beach. He was born in Balacad, Laoag City, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. He is survived by wife Catalina; sons Manuel, Rubin, Edwin and Mario; brother Ignacio; sisters Cristy Barit and Flavia Pungtilan; 10 grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Services: 7 p.m. Friday and 9:30 a.m. next Saturday at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Waipahu. Call after 6 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. next Saturday. Burial: noon at Valley of the Temples.

Margaret Qun Tai Chang Ching
March 11, 2007
Margaret Qun Tai Chang Ching, 98, of Honolulu, a retired Alder Street Juvenile Detention Home cook, died in Hale Ho Aloha. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by son Millard, sisters Violet Lum and Harriet Sparks, two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Visitation: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Friday at Diamond Head Mortuary. Taoist services. Burial to follow at Diamond Head Memorial Park.

Corinne Louise DeLorm
March 21, 2007
Corinne Louise "Vicki" DeLorm, 63, of Mountain View, Hawaii, a homemaker, died in Honolulu. She was born in New York. She is survived by husband Richard, mother Wilda, brother George and hanai sister Diane Phillips. Private services.

Jane Kiyoko Ebisuya
March 21, 2007
Jane Kiyoko Ebisuya, 95, of Ewa Beach died in Leeward Integrated Health Services. She was born in Ewa. She is survived by son Melvin; daughters Noreen Kimura, Elma Ebisuya and Elsa Nakamura; 13 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren. Private services. No monetary offerings.

Carol Ann Erickson
March 27, 2007
Carol Ann Erickson, 44, of Wailua, Kauai, died at home. She was born in California. She is survived by companion Mitchell Bantillan, mother Ruth Bottoms and sister Juliet. Celebration of life: noon today at Wailua River mouth.

Lono Kwai Mun Fu
March 28, 2007
Lono Kwai Mun Fu, 85, of Anahola, Kauai, a retired police officer, died in Wilcox Memorial Hospital. He was born in Hawaii. He is survived by wife Frances P.; sons Landis, Vernon and Lance; daughters Lissa Fu, Lona Duque, Lani Gomes, Lynn Leong and Leilani Furugen; brothers Charles K.C. and Edwin "Ah Meng"; sisters Hattie Baptiste, Ellen "Ah Lan" Kaneakua and Anna "Oui" Pacheco; 33 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren. Visitation: 10 a.m.-noon next Saturday at Borthwick Kauai Mortuary in Koloa, Kauai. Services to follow. Casual attire.

Edwin Shigeo Fujimoto
March 14, 2007
Edwin Shigeo Fujimoto, 99, of Kaneohe, a retired Y. Hata and Co. employee, died in Ann Pearl Care Home Inc. He was born in Aiea. He is survived by daughters Beverly H. Kim, Barbara Y. Sambueno, Linda H. Thom and Gayle S. Kutaka; sisters Gladys Kawano and Kimiko Hiraoka; 14 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. Private services.

Annie Akiona Hew
March 18, 2007
Annie Akiona Hew, 97, of Lahaina, a homemaker, died at home. She was born in Lahaina. She is survived by daughters Pearl Soong, Amy Chow and Lindenette Tratchel; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Private services.

Margaret Haruko Higa
March 9, 2007
Margaret Haruko Higa, 92, of Honolulu, a federal government and Easy Appliance employee, died in Kuakini Medical Center. She was born in Waipahu. She is survived by sons Walter F. and Chester M. Toma; daughter Jeanette S. Tamayori; brother Takemi Goya; sisters Doris Yamashige, Carole Holokahi, Grace Goya and Jeannette Johnson-Capps; and three grandchildren. Private services. No monetary offerings.

Wesley Iwao Hirata
March 25, 2007
Wesley Iwao Hirata, 36, of Honokaa, Hawaii, a Food Pantry store manager in Kona, Hawaii, died in Kona Community Hospital. He was born in Honokaa. He is survived by parents Kenichi and Helen Y., brother Stanley K. and sisters Aileen A. Hirata and Cora T. Lee. Services: 10 a.m. Monday at Honokaa Hongwanji Mission. Call after 9 a.m. Casual attire.

Shigeki Horikawa
March 22, 2007
Shigeki Horikawa, 89, of Eleele, Kauai, an Alexander & Baldwin clerk, died in Kauai Veterans Memorial Hospital. He was born in Koloa, Kauai. He is survived by son Alan, daughter Vicki, sister Nancy and a grandchild. Private services.

Constance Fumie Imoto
March 16, 2007
Constance Fumie Imoto, 91, of Mililani, a retired Kahala Hilton housekeeping department employee, died. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by brother Richard A. and sister Gladys A. Sugawa. Private services.

Noboru Inouye
March 19, 2007
Noboru "Tabun" Inouye, 95, of Honolulu, a retired Inouye Leis and Flowers proprietor, died. He was born in Ulupalakua, Maui. He is survived by daughter Suzanne Y. Ikeda, brothers Walter W. and Edwin S., hanai brothers Thomas and Russell Takuma, sister Alma Kikuyo Kano, hanai sister Thelma Takuma-Matsumoto and three grandchildren. Services: 6 p.m. Monday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Call after 5 p.m. No monetary offerings.

Reginald Carlos Jumawan
March 16, 2007
Reginald Carlos Jumawan, 67, of Wahiawa died in the Queen's Medical Center. He was born in Waialua. He is survived by brothers Richard, Roland, Calvin, Francisco and Santiago; sisters Rosalina Ignacio and Loling Ball; and stepmother Petronia. Private services.

Wallace Seigen Kiyabu
March 21, 2007
Wallace Seigen "Chicken" Kiyabu, 93, of Honolulu, a retired city Division of Sewers superintendent and Royal Adventure Travel employee, died. He was born in Hana, Maui. He is survived by wife Anne U.; sons Ken S., Paul K. and Leslie S.; daughter Patricia O. Monteith; brothers Harry S. and James S.; sisters June S. Sunada and Grace S. Muramoto; seven grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Services: 10 a.m. Thursday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Call after 9 a.m. Casual attire. No flowers.

Richard Kwock Aung Leong
March 15, 2007
Richard Kwock Aung Leong, 92, of Honolulu, a retired Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard nuclear submarine inspector, died in Arcadia Retirement Residence. He was born in Waipahu. He is survived by brother Kwock Y. and sisters Sai Wun Roig, Mary L. Lee, Anna Goo and Margaret Pang. Private services.

Hatsue Kakimoto Miyabara
March 20, 2007
Hatsue Kakimoto Miyabara, 93, of Hanapepe, Kauai, a taro farmer, died at home. She was born in Koolau, Kauai. She is survived by brother Harold Kakimoto, sisters Gladys Ishii and Florence Mukai, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Private services.

Charles Lowell Moffatt
March 21, 2007
Charles Lowell Moffatt, 88, of Spokane, Wash., a U.S. Postal Services mail carrier and Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard welder, died in Honolulu. He was born in Kevin, Mont. He is survived by wife Bonnie, daughter Mary Anne, brother J. Howard, sister Mary Bemis and two grandchildren. Services pending.

Katherine Kimie Nagatori
March 14, 2007
Katherine Kimie Nagatori, 84, of Honolulu died in the Queen's Medical Center. She was born in Paia, Maui. She is survived by sons James and Glenn, daughter Ellen, sisters Dorothy Kusatsu and Clara Harada, 14 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Private services.

Jerry Yutaka Ojiri
March 19, 2007
Jerry Yutaka Ojiri, 84, of Kaneohe, formerly of Kahului, a retired Reddy Electric electrician in Kahului and U.S. Army veteran who served in World War II in the 442nd "Go for Broke" Regiment, died in Honolulu. He was born in Paia, Maui. He is survived by wife Laura, daughter Donna and sisters Yoshie Fukushima and Nancy Shirachi. Private services.

Kiyoichi Okihara
March 21, 2007
Kiyoichi Okihara, 87, of Kekaha, Kauai, a Kekaha Sugar Plantation truck driver, died in Hale Kupuna Heritage Home. He was born in Waimea, Kauai. He is survived by wife Sakiko, daughters Amy Willman and Kate Hardwick, brother Shigeru, sister Michiyo Hori and four grandchildren. Private services.

Clarence Kiyoshi Okimoto
March 13, 2007
Clarence Kiyoshi Okimoto, 92, of Honolulu, a retired Durante sheet metal worker, died in Kuakini Medical Center. He was born in Kapaa, Kauai. He is survived by sister Florence Yabusaki. Private services.

Edith M. Ruhmshottel
March 26, 2007
Edith M. Ruhmshottel, 94, of Kailua died at home. She was born in Tacoma, Wash. She is survived by daughter Margaret "Maggie" DeMare, four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Private services.

Robert Sui Sato
March 27, 2007
Robert Sui Sato, 87, of Aiea, a retired E.E. Black welding foreman, died in Pearl City Nursing Home. He was born in Ewa. He is survived by wife Florence F., sons Melvin and Rodney, daughters Jo Ann Sato and Shirley Saki, brother Clarence S., six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Services: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, mauka chapel. Call after 6 p.m. Casual attire. No flowers.

Gladys Matsue Tokunaga
March 15, 2007
Gladys Matsue Tokunaga, 85, of Honolulu, a retired Kaiser Medical Center Medical Records Department employee, died. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by husband Motomu "Carl"; daughters Rene W. Koga, Carrie N. Sato, Amy T. Kurihara and Erin Y. James; brother Ryoichi Narikawa; sister Elsie M. Sekimura; 11 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Private services.

Mary Y. Wong
March 27, 2007
Mary Y. Wong, 88, of Honolulu, a retired U.S. Postal Services postmaster in Waimanalo, died in the Queen's Medical Center. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by husband Wallace, sons Gerald and Stacey, daughters Valerie Sorensen and Felice Broglio, brothers Harold and John Young, and seven grandchildren. Mass: 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Augustine Church, 130 Ohua Ave. Call after 9:30 a.m. Rosary: 10 a.m. Inurnment to follow at Valley of the Temples. Aloha attire. No flowers.

Randolph K.H. Wong
March 9, 2007
Randolph K.H. Wong, 55, of Kaneohe died. He was born in Honolulu. No family survivors. Services: 8:45 a.m. Thursday at Hawaiian Memorial Park, Ocean View.

Michael Sun Him Young
March 25, 2007
Michael Sun Him Young, 58, of Honolulu, a Coastal Construction employee, died in Hawaii Medical Center East. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by sons Derek Young and Bobby Williams, daughters Brenda Y. Falany and Sherry and Lisa Williams, and sister Cheryl Ann. Services: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, makai chapel. Call after 5 p.m. Casual attire. No flowers.