In Loving Memory of Lionel “Blue” Miyagawa May 23, 1950 – July 9, 2025Lionel “Blue” Miyagawa passed away peacefully at home on July 9, 2025, surrounded by his loving family. A devoted husband, father, grandfather, and brother, Lionel lived a life defined by quiet strength and a passionate love...

Tamayo Tokunaga, 89, of Kahului, passed away peacefully on July 7, 2025 under hospice care.  She was predeceased by her husband, Daniel, and was a loving mother to her sons David and Kevin.  She was born in Puunene, graduated from Baldwin High School, and for many years assisted her husband with...

Carmela Burtell was a radiant soul whose life bloomed with kindness, grace and beauty. She passed peacefully into the Light on July 7, 2025, in Maui, Hawai‘i, embraced by the island winds and the loving presence of her daughters, Ann-Marie and Lauren. Born on March 12, 1939, in Detroit, Michigan...

Services are pending with Nakamura Mortuary.

Wendell "Sonny" Lono Kalawaia Sr. was born on March 11th, 1931, to William Lono Kalawaia & Ruth Kolo'a Kalawaia in Kahului, Maui. Wendell was a devoted Husband, Father, Grandfather and Friend. He had a lifetime love of Jesus, music, art, trains, motorcycles, and trucks. on July 5th, 2025,...

Our beloved father, papa, brother, uncle and friend, Reynaldo "Ricky" Deleon Dela Cruz Sr. passed peacefully on Friday, July 4, 2025, at Maui Memorial Hospital, Wailuku at the age of 67. He was born in Ilocos Sur, Philippines on February 11, 1958, and was the son of Lorenzo and Josefina Dela...

Services are pending with Nakamura Mortuary.

Nenaliza Ancheta Tumacder, 50, of Kahului, passed away on June 29, 2025, surrounded by family. She was born on December 11, 1974, in Victoria, Oriental Mindoro, and raised in Roxas, Isabela, Philippines. In 2015, she immigrated to Maui with her daughter Queen to reunite with her husband Jovencio...

Naomi Reinhardt Araki, 80, of Wailuku, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on June 27, 2025. Naomi was a beloved wife, mother, sister, grandmother, great-grandmother, hanai mother, aunty, and dear friend to so many, leaving behind a legacy of love, compassion and generosity. A proud...

Helen Motooka Nakashima, 95, of Kahului, Maui passed away peacefully on June 27, 2025.  She was a loving & devoted wife to Edwin “Jojo” Nakashima who passed away in September 2005.  Helen was born and raised in Hana, Maui to Yasutaro and Fujiko Motooka.  She was the eldest daughter of nine...

Artemio “Sabas” Simon Morales, 88, of Wailuku, Hawai‘i, passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by his loving family on June 23, 2025. Born on February 1 1937, in Philippines, Sabas was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and friend. He moved to Maui in November 1992 to be with his growing...

Emiliano “Miling” or “Papa Blackie” Santella, 82, of Lahaina, Hawai‘i, passed away peacefully on June 22, 2025, at Kaiser Westside Hospital in Hillsboro, Oregon, surrounded by the love of his family. Emiliano was born in Cabugao, Ilocos Sur, Philippines, and was the third of five children of...