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Veteran Hawaii television newscaster Lynne T. Waters remembered Tomimbang Burns as the only person who welcomed her when she came to Hawaii in 1981 to anchor the KITV news. "The only person who ...
Kalākaua, the last king of Hawaii, died on January 20, 1891, while visiting in California. President Benjamin Harrison ordered the United States Navy and United States Army to conduct a state funeral in San Francisco. The funeral attracted an estimated 100,000 spectators who lined the streets to watch the cortege pass.
Born in Honolulu. Married September 11, 1905. Her mother's name was Annie, and her father James Lycett emigrated from Australia in 1876, employed by the Honolulu Iron Works. Her father's 1917 obituary lists his 11 living children; besides May, there was John, Sarah, Emma, Maud, Edith, Alice, William, Ada, Florence and Bertha. [9] Vacant 1938–1941
Fifty years later, Congress authorized a small appropriation to establish a national cemetery in Honolulu with two provisions: that the location be acceptable to the War Department, and that the site would be donated rather than purchased. In 1943, the governor of Hawaii offered the Punchbowl for this purpose.
Since the state funeral took place during the recess of the territorial legislature, Kūhiō, Iaukea, William Owen Smith and five other businessmen and politicians borrowed money from the Bank of Hawaii to cover the expenditures. The state funeral cost the territorial government a total of US$8,500 (equivalent to about $202,100 in 2023). [11]
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser October 17, 2024 at 12:01 AM They have been identified as Bryan C. Kunic, 63, of Hollister, Calif., and Laura Sue Jett, 72, of Oklahoma City, Okla.
The funeral procession ended at the dock where the steamer Hawaii took the coffin back to the island of Hawaii for burial. [64] During a brief stop on the island of Maui, hundreds of well-wishers came aboard the Hawaii to place bouquets and leis on the coffin of the deceased. The ship arrived in Hilo on October 2 and was escorted to shore by ...
Honolulu firefighters found Toako Fujita’s body in the closet of her penthouse apartment at 1350 Ala Moana Blvd. on Feb. 23, 1994, with a gunshot wound to her chest, after someone started a fire ...