Family history & genealogy are passions of more than half-a-century, perhaps triggered as an infant among my 300+ member Hawaiian ʻohana. While a baby I was center at a rare FIVE-generations photo with my mother, her mother, her mother, and her mother. Treasure!

I manage memorials for extended family, Hawaiian cousins, mentors, and a few friends.

Please add new facts. But let's make sure they are facts - some poorly researched printed sources guess or suppose. Researchers will look to fill holes, so a "guessed" birthday (for example) may discourage the need for birth certificate search. Please add fact-based corrections.

Please improve narrative, add detail, photos, & anecdotes. Let's animate our family & community memories! Did the person love certain foods? ...or enjoy cooking a signature dish? Pets? Travels? Heirlooms left behind? Who was this person named for - or, who's now named after them? Richer bios help us relatives & friends to share, to mourn, and to remember.

Often it's impossible to get-together for a proper 'bon voyage' due to distance or health difficulties, or loss-of-life may be sudden. Especially as many families elect to cremate and don't create physical memorial sites, the memorials on this site are unique places to honor our beloved departed. Step back from these memorials, reflect on your own mortality (we each die young), and celebrate life & community!

Again, please let's introduce more about our loved ones than dry details - these dated boxes are only the first steps; We can always build better biographies! Our relatives & friends were passionate people - what did they enjoy? (or dislike). Each has a legacy. Please add anecdotes, photos, art, etc.

[ A note on typography of Hawaiʻian names & words ]
Properly using the ʻokina on Find a Grave is somewhat hazardous. Searching for a name will produce different (or no) results when entering the proper ʻokina character than if using a straight quote or nothing [Google handles this differently]. If unfamiliar with diacritical typology, enter the first part of a name prior to the ʻokina for best success. Most frequently, obituaries & graves have ignored the ʻokina, and it's tempting to continue that tradition to aid searching, but then those searching via proper spelling will be frustrated. Perhaps the Find a Grave search engine in future will return the wider set of results (as Google does now). Anyhow, I'm editing for proper Hawaiʻian using ʻokina [U+02BB Unicode character]