A LOVING SENTIMENT FOR OUR MAMA, MRS. AKIOKA
Mr. Editor of Ka Hoku o Hawaii:
Aloha oe—
Please allow to include this sad parcel in some space in your newspaper to be published this week, in the issue of this new year. Our beloved mother left us, her children and family to grieve for her.
She was born in Canton, China, in 1857, in the month of April 23, and left her homeland when she was thirty-two years old and came to the Hawaiian Islands. She lived patiently with her husband in the beautiful valley of Waipio working under a poi company for several years. After this, her husband started his very own poi company. His capital was a single mule, some leased land, and a hired hand.
He did well for five years, and at that point, the two of them grew until the other poi companies dropped off. Today, it is one of the big poi factories of this beautiful valley supplying on the average 8,000 pounds of poi every week, feeding the workers of the ranches of Hawaii nei. Her husband (our father) died three years ago.
We are her children
Ernest Akioka
Edward Akioka
Herbert Akioka
(Hoku o Hawaii, 1/17/1928, p. 3)
Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Buke XXI, Helu 33, Aoao 3. Ianuari 17, 1928.
nupepa 
Herbert Akioka, the father of famous artist Herb Kawainui Kane! This is the obituary for the mother of Herbert and his two brothers, the grandmother of the familiar Herb Kane.
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Always interesting to see things about non-Hawaiian families speaking Hawaiian into the 20th century.
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