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William (Bill) Hannafin Austin
Sep. 30, 2025
William (Bill) H. Austin, 74, of Kurtistown, Hawaii, passed away peacefully at home on September 30, 2025, surrounded by family and friends after a battle with lung cancer. Born on December 12, 1950, in Easton, Maryland, to Nancy and Herbert Austin, Bill was the youngest of six children. He lived...
Barbara Cassidy Emery
Sep. 23, 2025
Barbara Emery passed away on September 23, 2025, at the age of eighty-seven in Honoka’a, HI. She was a long-time resident of Nevada County, CA, Santa Clara County, CA, and New York City, Queens, NY. She was married to Bob Emery from San Jose, CA, for over fifty-five years until his passing in...
Billie Lavender Hawkins
Sep. 21, 2025
Billie Lavender Hawkins, who was 97 years young, passed away at Kona Community Hospital on September 21, 2025, with her daughter and son-in-law, Myrna and Richard Fant by her side. Billie is also survived by daughter Lorrie and son-in-law Stephen Gitz, and daughter Sandra Burger (son-in-law Mark...
Beatrice Hernandez
Sep. 18, 2025
Beatrice Hernandez March 7, 1944 - September 18, 2025 E hoʻomaha me ka maluhia On September 18th, after a long battle against cancer and other chronic illnesses, our Queen Bea passed, quietly and peacefully. She was not in pain. We had been saying goodbye to her often over her final days, and her...
De Ette PiʻikeaOPiʻilani Stevens Loa
Sep. 15, 2025
De Ette PiʻikeaOPiʻilani Stevens Loa, a retired preschool teacher, passed away on September 15, 2025 in Kona, Hawai‘i. A Kamehameha Kapālama alumni of the class of 1968, De Ette was born on March 27, 1950 in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. She is preceded in death by her husband Kenneth and is survived by...
Deette S. Loa
Sep. 15, 2025
Services are pending with Homelani Crematory.
Elaine Mieko Fernandez
Sep. 14, 2025
Elaine M. Fernandez, 77 of Kailua-Kona passed away on September 14, 2025. Born in Kealakekua, Hawaii. She was a Licensed Practical Nurse at the Kona Hospital and was later a school nurse at Konawaena High School. Survived by husband Julio Fernandez, daughter Tracy, sons Jaret (Jocelyn) and...
Lawrence Ceferino Nenio
Sep. 13, 2025
Lawrence Ceferino Nenio 06/21/1933 - 09/13/2025 United States Marine Corps Veteran who served in the Korean War, has gone to be with our Lord and Savior at the age of 92. He was married to Janet Olivia Yoon for 58 years. Lawrence was born in Pepe'ekeo, raised in Honomü, moved to Honolulu as a...
Rebecca D Dobbs
Sep. 11, 2025
Services are pending with Homelani Crematory.
Daniel Cox
Sep. 07, 2025
Services are pending with Homelani Crematory.
Judith O'Donnell
Sep. 02, 2025
Services are pending with Homelani Crematory.
Cassandra Charlene Wylie
Aug. 29, 2025
Cassandra Wylie (born Cassandra Charlene Chudy) passed onto the next grand adventure, as she would say, peacefully on August 29th, 2025. She is and will be greatly missed. She was wonderful and wild and weird in all the best ways. She could recite the Raven by heart and knew every song Bob Dylan...