Birth date: Jan 29, 1953 Death date: Sep 15, 2014
Bette Kai’ulani Purdy, 61, of Wailuku, died on September 15, 2014 at her home under the care of Hospice Maui. Visitation will begin at 1p.m. Sunday, October 26, 2014 at Kaahumanu Church, with a service at 2p.m. Scattering of Ashe Read Obituary
HI Mama,
I didn't come and check your wall since my last post and was very surprised to see that people had shared some wonderful memories of you. I will get to reading it but for now I wanted to tell you I love you very much and I miss you very very much. I long to see your face and hear your laugh. Most of all I miss the smell of the kitchen with you baking grandmas bread or your beef stew or your chili and i can go on and on and on. I'm trying my best to be the one to take over and cook like you. so far I have the chili and the stew down...haha now im working on the spare ribs and the one most of all is grandmas bread but you need to leave me a note or a sign to where the recipe is...please mama? i love you very much mama i love you with all of my heart.
Aloha my sista, as the Kahu asked, Is there anyone who would like to share your thoughts , stories of you? I stood there and my thoughts brought tears to my heart and eyes. And now I'd like to share them . You were my Big Sista, my body guard at Baldwin. Yet your humbleness, your intelligence and your gift of that warmth glowed within YOU! Yes we all remember being CPO's, over ruling Mr. Fuji in the attendance office and hanging out at Kahekili Terrace.
How your mama, strict as she was? Knowing that your chore was to help her at Kaahumanu Church and only to come back HOME. What an Honor that is for you and especially your mama! God is good!
Then we met again, at Nakea Street. And the usual having fun and having a few. Picking up the latest, meeting up with Shel and Blanche!!
You were so Akamai, headstrong and loving in your soul. A typical mother, loving your daughter and none stop about the grand Keiki.
My love to a best friend, sista from your Tita Mavis
Mom and I was just talking about your laugh. I will always hear it in my head. You my friend are alive and well in my heart...I have to crack up when I think of the stuff we did growing up. lMOO
My Dearest Life Long Friend,
It is for my own selfish reasons that I wish you were physically here even though I know you are in a better place. It saddens me to think that the friend I grew up with and shared so much of my life with will no longer be there the next time I come home to Maui with that big smile and greeting me with "Hui! An den tita, how you"?
Small kid time, junior high, high school...growing into adults, making our own way in life yet never forgetting each other. Whenever I came home we just picked up where we left off...No matter how many miles we were apart
or how much time had passed. It was just that easy and simple with you my friend. I thank you for making life easy and sharing all these years of friendship, love and aloha with me. For always being there and helping me and being supportive in good times and difficult ones. For stepping up and opening up your heart and home to my daughter when there was no one else to care for her. Mahalo for your aloha spirit and accepting me and loving me unconditionally. Thank you for sharing your Ohana with me and helping me to be grounded in my heritage...who I am and where I came from. Thank you for for all you have done for me. Thank you for being You.
I miss you my friend. I miss your spirit.
May the good Lord keep you and walk beside you as you travel on this new road while creating new chapters in your wonderful new life.
Aloha pumehana pili pa'a a me pomaikai mai ke akua iaoe'
A hui hou
Meke Aloha,
Blanche Naomi Estrella-Bruce
