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Leevi Sakugawa-Cabuyaban

Leevi Shigeo Featualagi Imaikalani Sakugawa-Cabuyaban of Kula, passed away on October 20, 2023, at Maui Memorial Medical Center. Visitation and service to be held on November 18, 2023 at Haiku Community Center. Visitation will be held from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm with service to begin at 12:00 pm. Leevi is survived by his parents, Nolan Cabuyaban and Kecia Sakugawa; sisters, Lilee and Leyah Sakugawa-Cabuyaban; grandparents, Sherman and Candace Baisa, Randall and Jan Jacintho, and Nalo Cabuyaban; great-grandparents, Paul and Helen Sakugawa, Sherman and Gladys Baisa, and Paulette ...

Carol Jean Kehaulani Medeiros

Carol Jean Kehaulani Medeiros, 75, of Pukalani passed away peacefully on October 22, 2023 under the care of Islands Hospice Kahului. She was born on December 27, 1947 in Lahaina, Maui. Carol Jean, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, following the example of her Lord and savior Jesus Christ, leaves to carry on her legacy of love and faith, her husband, Gregory; children, Maile (Ben) Corpuz, Melia Ballesteros, Keli’i Medeiros, and Kaimana Medeiros; grandchildren, Noah, Kaeo, Kahiau, and Kamaehu Corpuz, Landon and Shayla Ballesteros, and Kayden ...

James Thomson

James “Buck” Thomson (83) died at his home in Kula, Maui under the care of Hospice Maui. He was born January 2, 1940 to Barbara and Douglas Thomson in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was raised in Waialua, Oahu along with his sister, Gay where his father was employed by Waialua Sugar Company. Buck attended New Mexico Military Institute and then the University of California at Davis. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Production. He had been in ROTC, so spent the next two years in the Army. He went on to spent 28 years in the Army Reserves, retiring as ...

Robert Edward Parabicoli

Robert Edward Parabicoli, 96, of Haiku, Maui, passed away peacefully on October 1, 2023, at Hale Makua Kahului. He was born on September 18, 1927, in Massachusetts. A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, November 22, 2023, at Ballard Family Mortuary. Visitation will begin from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.; eulogy will start at 11:00 a.m.; he will join his beloved wife Regina at 1:00 p.m. at the Maui Veteran’s Cemetery in Makawao. Robert was employed as a bricklayer and mason and took great pride in the quality of his work. Throughout his life, he enjoyed ...

Jane Calhoun

Jane Hisae Calhoun, 96, of Kahului, Maui, passed away peacefully on the morning of October 24, 2023 at Hale Makua Kahului. She was born in Puunene/Wailuku on May 8, 1927 to Ichiso and Mitsuyo Nishihara. Jane’s parents had emigrated from Hiroshima, Japan early last century. Jane grew up in ...

Tiana-Tausaafia Laupola-Oto

Tiana-Tausaafia Laupola-Oto, infant baby girl, passed away on October 10, 2023 at her residence in Wailuku. She was born on August 18, 2023 at Maui Memorial Medical Center. Funeral services will be held from 4 p.m. to 12 midnight on Friday, November 17, 2023, at Ballard Family Mortuary. Funeral services will be held again at Ballard Family Mortuary on Saturday, November 18, 2023 from 7 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., burial 12 noon at Valley Isle Memorial Park in Haiku. Tiana-Tausaafia is survived by her father, Uluaki Oto; mother, Orianah Lavea; grandparents, Tiana and ...