Pandemic 101 years ago, 1919.

Posted on August 4, 2020 by nupepa

ENTIRE FAMILIES ARE DOWN WITH FLU

Report of Six Days’ Illness and of Death of Victim Sent In At Same Time

Influenza cases and deaths reported in Honolulu and Oahu since February 1:

	City	Outside	Deaths
Feb. 1	13	5	5
″ 2	12	4	0
″ 3	24	9	4
″ 4	16	8	1
″ 5	6	6	2
″ 6	26	9	2
″ 7	14	10	2
″ 8	7	11	3
″ 9	2	0	0
″ 10	47	6	3
″ 11	35	5	6
″ 12	36	5	5
″ 13	7	3	4
″ 14	30	9	0
″ 15	11	9	0
″ 16	2	0	0
″ 17	30	3	8
″ 18	17	5	6
″ 19	31	1	1
″ 20	20	13	5
Total	386	121	57

Total cases for Oahu . . . . . 507

In January there were 69 deaths from influenza on the Island of Oahu.

Total deaths January and February, 126. Continue reading →

Deaths, 1919.

Posted on August 4, 2020 by nupepa

HAWAIIANS HAD THE MOST DEATHS IN THIS PAST MONTH.

In the month of January past, there were one-hundred and sixty-five deaths in Honolulu, almost 50 or more over the monthly average for some years past, as per the report from the Board of Health. The estimated population of the city of Honolulu is about 75,000. Continue reading →

Death of Julian Monsarrat, 1929.

Posted on August 2, 2020 by nupepa

DEATH TAKES NOTED HAWAII CATTLEMAN

Julian Monsarrat, of Old Honolulu Family, Dies at Hilo

(Special to The Advertiser)

HILO, March 15.—Julian Monsarrat, veteran cattleman and well-known kamaaina of Hawaii nei, died here this evening at 9 o’clock at the age of 67. The body will be removed to Honolulu for burial in the family plot. Arrangements have not yet been complete. Continue reading →

Passing of Holokawelu, 1865.

Posted on August 1, 2020 by nupepa

Quick Death.

My sister, named Holokawelu, died quickly last Wednesday, that being the 28th of June, in our land of birth, Waimea, Kauai. Continue reading →

Passing of David Paradise Keawehaku, 1932.

Posted on July 25, 2020 by nupepa

OBITUARIES

D. P. KEAWEHAKU

David Paradise Keawehaku, 513 Keauhou street, Kakaako, died Monday morning. Services will be held at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon at Silva’s mortuary. Burial will take place in Kawaiahao church cemetery. Keawehaku, who was unmarried, was a native of Hawaii and 65 years old. He was well known as a searcher of land titles.

(Advertiser, 5/24/1932, p. 2)

Honolulu Advertiser, 76th Year, Number 16,269, Page 2. May 24, 1932.

Passing of Olivia K. Nakea, 1955.

Posted on July 24, 2020 by nupepa

Nakea Rites Set Tuesday

Funeral services for Mrs. Olivia Kanoho Kaululaau Nakea, 56, who died Friday at a local hospital, will be held at 1 p. m. Tuesday in Borthwick Funeral Parlors chapel. Burial at Puea cemetery will follow. Continue reading →

Death of Sam Ku West, 1930.

Posted on July 11, 2020 by nupepa

DIES IN PARIS

Sam Ku West of Honolulu, noted player of the guitar and harp, who is dead at Paris, France.

SAM KU WEST, HAWAII HARPIST, DIES IN FRANCE

Honolulu Boy, Famed For Guitar and Harp Music, Succumbs To Long Illness

(Associated Press by Wireless)

PARIS, Sept. 9.—Sam Ku West, a Honolulu harp and guitar player, died Sunday in the American hospital here after a long illness. He was 23 years old. Continue reading →

Death of Daniel Akana Ku Jr. in San Francisco, 1964.

Posted on July 9, 2020 by nupepa

Hawaiian Trio Leader Passes

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Funeral services will be held Wednesday for Daniel Ku, native of Hawaii and for years the leader of the luxury liner Lurline’s famed Hawaiian trio.

He died Sunday of cancer at the San Francisco Marine Hospital. He was 54. Continue reading →

Charles H. Wilcox and Elizabeth Waterhouse perish in automobile accident, 1920.

Posted on June 22, 2020 by nupepa

CHAS. H. WILCOX AND NIECE DIE IN AUTO CRASH

Car Skids and Goes Over 150 Foot Precipice—Wife and Child Narrowly Escape With Their Lives.

The Wilcox party had been spending the day, Sunday, June 20, at Kokee, at the C. H. Wilcox place, and left for home early in the afternoon. They were in three cars—the Misses Wilcox in advance, the C. H. Wilcox family next, and the Crawfords and Mrs. P. L. Rice, last. Continue reading →

Death announcement, 1920.