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Mary Kealohapauole Timoteo passes away, 1908.

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MRS. TIMOTEO.

MRS. MARY KEALOHAPAUOLE TIMOTEO.

This estimable lady, wife of Rev. E. S. Timoteo, traveling evangelist of the Hawaiian Board, having received a stroke of paralysis, breathed her last on the 6th of September, being then 56 years of age.

Mrs. Timoteo was born at Puakea, Kohala, island of Hawaii, August 9th, 1852. In her girl-hood she attended the government or common school of her native village, then taught in the Hawaiian language.

At 15 years of age, she entered the Waialua Boarding School for Girls, known as Haleiwa, which was taught by Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Gulick, and which had an enrollment of 100 girls, 80 of whom were at one time under their roof.

Returning to her home she was married to Rev. E. S. Timoteo in 1871. With her husband they entered the Training School of the North Pacific, then under the guidance of Rev. B. W. Parker, and later taught by Rev. and Mrs. Dr. C. M. Hyde. In 1880 Mr. Timoteo accepted a call to the pastorate of the Waialua Hawaiian Church [Liliuokalani Protestant Church]; which position he filled, most creditably, for about 18 years. In 1897 Mr. Timoteo was called to the pastorate of the Kaumakapili Church in Honolulu.

In August, 1901, he was called by the Evangelical Association of the Islands, to be a traveling evangelist, and since then his wife has accompanied him upon many of his circuits doing a most helpful work in aid of her husband’s mission of reconciliation and reclamation of disaffected and backsliden Churches and Church members.

Mrs. Timoteo has always been a worthy and true helpmeet for her husband, setting a bright example to the women of every race, and every station. She was mindful of the advice of the Apostle Peter to wives, “Whose adorning let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.”

O. H. G.

[This publication, The Friend, is word-searchable, and can be found on the Mission Houses Museum website here.]

(Friend, 10/1908, p. 16)

MRS. MARY KEALOHAPAUOLE TIMOTEO.

The Friend, Volume LXV, Number 10, Page 16. October, 1908.

James H. K. Kaiwi has gone, 1915.

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REV. J. H. K. KAIWI HAS PASSED.

My dear Hoku;

Aloha oe.—Please allow me an open space in your slim body, for these words placed above, so that the many friends, companions, and fellow laborer in the work of our loving Lord in the Archipelago may learn of this sad news.

On Sunday, the 14th of this past February, at 10 p. m. of that evening, the angel of destruction of all bodily spirits came visiting at their Residence at Keaalama, Opihikao, Puna, and took away the breath of life from his body, and left his remains to his wife, children, grandchildren, friends, and the Church which the two of them were connected with aloha. The sickness which caused his death was a tumor in his breast; which he had for perhaps 8 months.

He was born into this world from the loins of his parents. Kaiwi was his father and Kalua was his mother, at Keahialaka, Puna, in the month of April, the 17th, in the year 1860; he was 54 years old and 9 months and 27 days; and the hours of his breathing in the air of this earth are gone. Continue reading →

Mrs. Haokekai passes away, 1922.

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OUR BELOVED MAMA HAS GONE BEYOND.

MRS. HAOKEKAI.

Mr. Solomon Hanohano, Aloha between us:—Please allow me some room in our pride.

In the dawn of Thursday, at 4 o’clock, May 25, our beloved mama, Mrs. Haokekai, grew weary of living in this world and went on the path all must travel.

Haokekai was born at Pauwela, Maui, in the month of September. 5, 1861, from the loins of Kekane, her mother, and Mose Kahiapo, her father; from the two of them, they had three boys and one girl. From their children are great and many living on Maui and here in Honolulu nei.

One of their grandchildren is the pastor of the Paia Church on Maui, Mose Kahiapo [Moses Kahiapo], who took the name of his grandfather.

Their mother went a long time ago [aole e kala i hele ai]; it is now 46 years. Their father was taken to Kalawao. One son went, and another, and then our mother; there is just one still living, that is William Opunui Kahiapo, the last of the direct family of Kahiapo.

As for the mother of the two of us who has gone, she had a stroke [? lolo], but it was not a severe stroke, for she could go out here and there; then she got a different sickness which is what she died of.

From what the doctor told me, it was ma’i ma ka umauma, (Cancer on the breast); the blood did not flow, and her heart was weak; there was much searching for a cure, but the knowledge of the doctors was stumped.

Her last wish she made to me was, “When I die, return me to Pauwela and lay me to rest with my mother.” I said to her, that can be done because you have put away your savings in a safe place without being undecided and turning this way and that [?? ua malama oe i na hunahuna metalia ma kahi maluhia, aole hoi e kunana a hou hewa i o ianei].

On the 29th of May, we were upon the swaying billows of the ocean and then whirring at the Kahului harbor where we got on a hearse for Pauwela; that afternoon, she was gone for all times, and her child, the Rev. Moses Kahiapo did the blessing, praying to the Father in heaven to welcome her before him.

This was a woman who had a large family that would take up a whole halau. As for her age, she was 61 and ten months.

Here I give my thanks to you, Mr. Editor of the Kuokoa, and the workers of your press, aloha kakou,

KAKAIO KAOLELO,

W. OPUNUI KAHIAPO,

Z. KAPULE.

[In the obituaries in the Kuokoa of 6/1/1922, it lists under Deaths, Haokekai Kapule, on Kawaiahao Street, May 25.]

(Kuokoa, 6/22/1922, p. 3)

KO MAUA MAMA ALOHA UA HALA MAO.

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke LXI, Helu 25, Aoao 3. Iune 22, 1922.

Report of deaths in Japan, 1900.

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By the Hongkong Maru.

Word was received by the Hongkong Maru from the Orient that Rev. David Keaweamahi, who left here about twelve years ago for Japan to undergo treatment for leprosy, died in Tokyo on the 29th of July last of consumption. No signs of the disease was visible on his face. He was buried that same evening, a large concourse of friends following his remains to the grave

W. H. Cummings died on July 15th at the Kusatsu springs and was buried there.

(Independent, 8/14/1900, p. 3)

By the Hongkong Maru.

The Independent, Volume XI, Number 1584, Page 3. August 14, 1900.

Judge Arthur A. Wilder takes own life, 1917.

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TAKES HIS OWN LIFE

Former Judge Arthur A. Wilder of the supreme court took his own life with a bullet from a pistol. The bullet entered beneath his right eye and exited behind the side of his head and he died instantly. He carried this out at the home of his cousin, James A. Wilder, in the evening of this past Thursday at Kalia, Honolulu.

He was one of the knowledgeable attorneys of this town, and a fair judge while he was sitting on the bench.

This happened as a result of bad feelings as a result of Mr. Watson leaving his seat on the supreme court in place of Mr. Wilder [Mr. Wilda].

(Puuhonua, 1/5/1917, p. 4)

LAWE I KONA OLA PONOI

Ka Puuhonua o na Hawaii, Buke IV, Helu 1, Aoao 4. Ianuari 5, 1917.

Ellen Pukila and child pass away, 1912.

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MY DEAR, MY WIFE HAS GONE

Mr. Patient Editor of the Nupepa Kuokoa, Aloha oe:—May it please your open heart to place upon the deck of your precious, my baggage of tears so that those who live from where the sun appears at Ha’eha’e to the setting of the sun at Lehua, will know about my beloved, my wife, who has gone, undoing the supporting bond within.

For dust has returned to dust, and the soul to the One who created it; and this is what I endlessly grieve over, for my beloved, my wife, being that she has gone together on that road of no return with the first fruit of our loins of our youth, which is the reason for her being taken so early in her life.

For Lahaina, Maui, is the birthplace of my Ellen Pukila, and we were married here in Wailau, Molokai in the month of October, 1911, and we lived faithfully together in the holy covenant of matrimony, and she has grown weary of this life on July 24, 1912, at 10 a. m.; we were together all over Wailau; and I ask of the high heavens to lighten my grief for my dear wife who has gone afar.

Her beloved husband,

GEORGE PAUOLE KAMAI.

Wailau, Molokai, July 29, 1912.

(Kuokoa, 8/2/1912, p. 4)

KUU MEA ALOHA HE WAHINE UA HALA

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XLVIII, Helu 31, Aoao 4. Augate 2, 1912.

Laimakua Kaiwipunakea passes away, 1888.

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Gone on the road of no return on the 30th of this past month, at Kawanui Uka, North Kona; death took away the last breath of Laimakua Kaiwipunakea. She left behind a husband, 3 children, and grandchildren who grieve for her. She was born in the year 1816, married her husband in 1836, and they had 13 children, and 10 have gone before with 3 still living. She was a mother who loved her children as well as her husband. Her remains were carried from the home of her daughter and buried on the grounds of Lanakila Church. “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.”

Kaiwipunakea Opio.

(Alakai o Hawaii, 1/7/1888, p. 4)

Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Buke 1, Helu 1, Aoao 4. Ianuari 7, 1888.

Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Buke 1, Helu 1, Aoao 4. Ianuari 7, 1888.

Lydia Panioikawai French, 1880.

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Mrs. Panioikawai French.

The person whose name appears at the top of this article is that fine woman and old-time kamaaina amongst we the people who always see her in Honolulu going by the name Panio. She is the widow of the old haole trader of Hawaii nei, Mika Palani. Panio was born in Waikele, Ewa, on the 15th of July, 1817. She married her husband, Mr. William French (Mika Palani) in 1836 at Kailua, Hawaii. Governor Kuakini was the one who married them; and it was with this husband who she lived in aloha with until death separated them. The two of them had three children—a daughter that is still living, and a mother that is admired along with her husband and four children—and twin sons, one who has died, and one who is living in China.

On the 24th of February past, Panio left this life, at the home of her daughter in Kaakopua, after being in pain for several weeks. In her sickness, her great patience was made clear, along with her unwavering faith in the goodness of the Lord, her Redeemer, and her Savior; and she was there until the victorious hour upon her body. She perhaps had a prayer before she died; she met with some friends, and after words of aloha, she said: “We are fortunate; blessed be the name of the Lord.” These were her last words. She did not say anything until the day she left, then she said clearly: Aloha, three times, and her body’s work was done.

Panio was a kamaaina and a brethren of Kawaiahao Church. Her regular friends were the fine women who are also well known here in Honolulu, and most of them have already passed on—Kekai, Hana Pauma, Halaki Adams, Nakapalau, Kaikaina, Malaea Kanamu, Kawao, Kamaile, Nakookoo, Pakohana. They were good Hawaiian women, who are amongst those called true Hawaiians. And Panio was a kamaaina amongst the royal court and amongst the haole.

I write this because of my aloha for her and her children and grandchildren. Beloved is the name of this enlightened devout mother and Grandmother. The fragrance of her name is stronger than the treasured perfumes of India. And I write this for all of the brethren of Hawaii. Let us copy the righteous, and not the wicked. Let us follow in the footsteps of the good until we are victorious.

PALEKA.

Kawaiahao, March 1, 1880.

(Kuokoa, 3/6/1880, p. 4)

Mrs. Panioikawai French.

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XIX, Helu 10, Aoao 4. Maraki 6, 1880.

King Lunalilo passes, 1874.

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THE DEATH OF LUNALILO

Our beloved King died from the night of Tuesday to the day of Wednesday [February 3, 1874], at 8 o’clock and 50 minutes in the evening. 44 hours went by after his birthday, and he died at 39 years old.

His death was quick without a struggle. He died before the alii, Ke alii Pauahai, F. Naea, R. Keelikolani, the Minister of Finance Sterling, Dr. Trousseau (Kauka Palani), and Dr. Oliver.

We visited the Palace and saw the makaainana murmuring about with worried faces, saying, “The King is dead.” The Lahui are sad and grieve over the quick passing of Lunalilo. The Lahui must at once look with hope to his Replacement, the one who will occupy the throne, and there is but one who is fitting, that is Kalakaua.

(Nuhou Hawaii, 2/10/1874, p. 3)

KA MAKE ANA O LUNALILO.

Ka Nuhou Hawaii, Buke I, Helu 15, Aoao 3. Feberuari 10, 1874.