Dad's Memorial

Today we held Dad's memorial at Hosoi Garden Memorial. Because of the Tier 2 restrictions there was a maximum of 10 people that could physically be present; there were 7 of us. When we first contacted Hosoi, I asked our funeral director Glenn whether we could also have the service be virtually accessible. At that time last year, they were getting ready to do their 1st event in a couple of days; with all the practice since then sharing Dad's service online went very well. It will be available for 90 days after today. (Which I think is April 8, 2021. If you decide to view the service, switch the camera to "podium" view for the best angle on the slide show, which starts at about 3 minutes & runs for about 20 minutes. Curtis gives a great eulogy that starts about 1:09:00 & runs about 10 minutes.) 

Flowers from cousins May Chan & Butchie.

Flowers from Maunalani Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.

Curtis, Lori, & Jenny watch the slide show.

After the service at Hosoi, Dad was interned at Puowaina aka The National Cemetery of the Pacific aka Punchbowl. Again, there was a limit on in-person attendees to the military funeral honor ceremony; there was no virtual option. There were even fewer of us there, but Shirley & Guy met up with us at Court 13 where Dad was interned with Mom; Shirley's father is interned nearby. Shirley's father was Dad's roommate at Maunalani for about a year.

Preparing for the military funeral honor.

Honor guard preparing for military funeral honor. (Photo by Czar)

Honor guard marching up to committal service court. (Photo by Czar)

Flag bearer approaches the urn. (Photo by Jenny)

Presenting the flag during the playing of Taps. (Photo by Jenny)

Holding the flag over the cremains. (Photo by Jenny)

Preparing to fold the flag. (Photo by Czar)

Folding flag into 13 triangles. (Photo by Jenny)

Presenting flag to family representative. (Photo by Jenny)

Mom's urn in the niche.

Placing Dad's urn in the niche.

Dad's urn in niche with Mom's urn.

Final salute.

Closing the niche.

Documenting the internment.

Family present at the internment. (Photo by Czar)

Dad & Mom are interned at Court 13.

Because there was a very strict limit on the number of people that could attend the memorial at Hosoi in person, I am including about a quarter of the photos that were in the video here. (I think access to the video expires on April 8, 2021.)

Family portrait (1938) 
L to R: Curtis, Mother, Rotoku, Charlie, Jean, Father Gertrude; missing Mildred. (Photographer unknown)

McKinley High School ID 
(1940) (Photographer unknown)

Army induction ceremony at Iolani Palace, 03/29/1943. (Photographer unknown)

"Don't forget me Sis." 
(1944) (Photographer unknown)

"Hill #140, Italy"
 pen & ink by Dad; it's where he was wounded on 07/06/1944.

Tourney General Hospital, 1945. (Photographer unknown)

August 9, 1952, 
with Mom. (Photographer unknown)

With 41# ulua caught at No. 5. 
(07/23/1957) (Photo by Mom)

In Kohala with barracuda
. (07/1966) (Photo by Mom)

61# ulua caught at Ewa Beach
. (10/14/1962) (Photo by Mom)

Christmas with Mom. 
(12/25/1967) (Photographer unknown)

Building the patio wall
. (1973) (Photo by Mom)

Working at Hickam AFB
. (01/1977) (Photographer unknown)

With 140# ahi in Kona
. (07/1977) (Photo by Mom)

Night fishing at Kita Stone
. (07/1978) (Photo by Mom)

Night fishing with Lem
. (07/1979) (Photo by Mom)

Dinner with Kazu
. (08/1979) (Photo by Mom)

August 9, 1977.

Opening presents
. (08/09/1977)

With his Mother & brother Charlie. (02/07/1977) (Photo by Mom)

Cleaning hage with Lem
. (08/1980) (Photo by Mom)

At Daisy & Tom’s in Chicago for Christmas. (12/1984) (Photographer unknown)

With Kai & V-8 in Washington. (11/20/1985)

Sarah & David on their way to Washington. (08/1986) (Photographer unknown)

With Kai
. (03/1987)

Curtis & Lori's wedding. 
(08/15/1987) (Photographer unknown)

Wedding reception
. (08/15/1987) (Photographer unknown)

At Bellows with Sarah & David. (07/1991) (Photographer unknown)

Celebrating 39th Anniversary in Richland, WA, at Jones'. (08/09/1991)

After 442nd RCT 50th Anniversary Parade. (03/1993) (Photographer unknown)

Noborikawa ʻOhana
. (07/2001) (Photographer unknown)

Portrait by Tomiko. (2002)

In Las Vegas celebrating
 50th Anniversary. (08/29/2002) (Photographer unknown)

Christmas 2002. (Photographer unknown)

Grandparents Day with Brent
. (09/2004) (Photographer)

Fathers Day 2005. (Photographer unknown)

442nd RCT 65th Anniversary Company K (03/30/2008) (Photographer unknown)

Christmas 2010. (Photographer unknown)

With grandchildren Kai, Brent, David, & Sarah (11/22/2014) Missing: DT

90th birthday. 
(11/27/2014) (Photo by Bick)

91st birthday. (11/24/2015)

Selfie time! (08/21/2016)

Celebrating Mom's 90th birthday
in Las Vegas. (11/05/2016)

With granddaughter Sarah &
great-granddaughter Kaia. (02/15/2017)

Family portrait by Tomiko
. (03/22/2017)

Mom's internment. (04/21/2017)

On the front porch, supervising the tree trimmers. (09/02/2017)

Asian Howard Hughes. (08/10/2017)

All cleaned up. (08/17/2017)

94th Birthday
. (11/24/2017)

Dinner at Zippy’s with Curtis. 
(02/22/2018)

Checking out the view at Maunalani with Brent & Curtis. (03/17/2018)

Photo shoot with Shane Sato. (03/20/2018)

Shane’s book was issued in November 2019. (Photo by Wakana)

Physical therapy with Zhanna
. (03/22/2018)

More PT in bed
. (03/22/2018)

Visiting with Popokilani
. (03/23/2018)

Xander comes for a visit
. (04/19/2018)

CNA Venus helps Dad get ready for the day. (04/20/2018)

Giving Popokilani treats. (04/20/2018)

At Namaste massage session
with Krista. (04/28/2018)

Checking out the view from the overlook. (04/22/2018)

Lunch & a nap out on the lanaʻi. 
(05/01/2018)

Fathers Day brunch. 
(06/17/2018)

With grandson Kai
. (07/18/2018)

Watching video of fishing 
on Big Island. (07/25/2018)

CNA Susie doing assisted Range of Motion with Dad. (09/16/2018)

Sharing his story at Maunalani
. (09/27/2018)

Veterans Day celebration at Maunalani. (11/09/2018)

Lunch with roommate Mr. Yamada & his daughter Shirley. (12/24/2018)

Christmas day with Santa. (12/25/2018)

Veterans Club meeting. (02/15/2019)

Winning at Blackjack. (08/11/2019)

With Aaron & Katie from Honolulu Magazine. (09/20/2019)

Czar shows him photo in newsletter. (10/02/2019)

Exercising. (10/16/2019)

Taking a selfie with Tomiko. (11/07/2019)

Veterans Day celebration. (11/08/2019)

He did not like the special lunch. (11/08/2019)

He wanted his peanut butter & banana sandwich! (11/08/2019)

Happy 95th Birthday! (11/24/2019)

Eileen visits after finishing the Honolulu Marathon. (12/09/2019)

Last lunch with Dad before shutdown. (03/07/2019)

CNA Sam tells Dad who we are, the masks confused him. (06/21/2019)

The virtual celebration was shared with family & photos were sent later. (11/11/2019)

On the way back home we stopped by Maunalani and dropped off 2 of the 3 floral arrangements for the residents to enjoy. While there we saw CNA Sam and Czar. Sam spent a lot of time working with Dad during the daily events for the residents.

We also stopped at Otto Cake to pick up some cheesecake; Otto Cake is basically at the foot of the hill Maunalani is on and definitely on the way home from Maunalani. We got a Peanut Butter Cheesecake Brownie & a Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownie plus 1 piece of cheesecake each of the Salted Caramel, Mocha, & Kona Macadamia Nut.

There were 264 new cases of COVID-19 reported today, bringing the known cases up to 22,895. There were also 4 known deaths reported, bringing the death toll up to 303; currently 1950 cases are considered active. The 7-day average of new cases on Oʻahu is 114 with a positivity rate of 4.4%. 

Hauʻoli lā Hoʻomanoʻa Kanahā Kumamāiwa Makahiki e Pam & Dennis!