Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Haae, Charles  "Kiliona" December 3, 1914
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., 12-29-1914]
HAAE, CHARLES KILIONA
IN MEMORIUM.  On December 3rd the life of Charles Kiliona Haae, a member of the 
Kawaihau police force and a prominent church and Sunday School worker, came to an 
end at Waipouli, bringing sorrow to his wife and only daughter, and to the host of 
his friends on Kauai. Born at Kahala, Hawaii, on September 5th, 1860, his father 
Haae and his mother Kalohepono were old residents of that district. Besides 
Charles, the only other child of these parents was his sister Loiki (Louisa). In 
his younger days, Kiliona (by which name he was generally known among his friends) 
attended the school conducted by Mr. Bond at Kahala. Among his classmates there is 
William Charles Achi, now one of the prominent lawyers of Honolulu and several 
times a member of the Legislature. After several years of study at Mr. Bond's 
school, he became a student at the independent school established by the late 
Honorable Joseph Mokuahai Poepoe, also in Kahala, where he worked hard and had the 
reputation of being a good student. He was hopeful, after finishing his course 
there, of pursuing a course of advanced study at Lahainaluna Seminary on Maui, but 
the death of his father forced him to give up any idea of further study, and he 
was obliged to go to work to support his mother and sister. The latter, while 
attending the Kohala Girls' Seminary, met Rev. S. Kapahi of Koloa, Kauai, and an 
attachment began which ended in their marriage. The couple returned to Kauai to 
make their home, and to this island Mrs. Haae, with young Charles Kiliona, soon 
followed and they took up their residence at Koloa with the daughter and her 
husband. Here it became known that Kiliona was a man of education and ability, and 
he soon received the appointment as one of the teachers at the Lihue Government 
School. At Lihue young Haae became friendly with Miss Lahapa Kahele of Nawiliwili, 
the daughter of Kahele, the Lihue District Magistrate and one of the prominent 
citizens of the district, and soon they were married, making their home in Lihue 
where was born the only child, Abigail Kalahikiola Haae, and where they took great 
interest in the work of the church and the service of God. In the year 1894, while 
S. W. Wilcox was Sheriff of Kauai, Haae was appointed one of the Lihue police 
force, which position he filled with ability for three years, serving during the 
last of the three as Captain of Police. In 1897, during the incumbency of F. W. 
Carter as Sheriff of the island, Haae was appointed Deputy Sheriff of Hanalei 
District and moved with his family to that new field. He was transferred before 
the year was up, however, and received the appointment as Deputy Sheriff of the 
District of Kawaihau. He gave up his position before the end of the year and took 
up his private practice as a lawyer in the district courts for which his studies 
had well qualified him. In 1903 he was reappointed as a police officer, for 
Kawaihau District, and did satisfactory work until the vicissitudes of political 
life compelled him to return to his private practice in 1905. He reopened his law 
office at that time and for three years held the respect and confidence of his 
fellow citizens as a practicing attorney. In 1908 he accepted the appointment at 
Kawaihau as jailor of that district, temporarily, to fill a position for which 
available good material was scarce. Two years later he accepted the appointment as 
one of the police officers of Kawaihau District and gave good service as an 
officer of the law, in addition to his other duties, up to six months ago when he 
was disabled from work by the illness which finally overcame him. During this 
period of his disability, his salary was paid regularly, thanks to the efforts of 
Sheriff Rice, and his family was thus kept from any privation. C. K. Haae was a 
true Christian and was always faithful and energetic in promoting the teachings of 
his religion. While at Lihue he was secretary of the Lihue Sabbath School and held 
a prominent position in the work there for many years. He was a leading member of 
the Lihue Church and retained his membership there to the end of his life, 
although during his later years a member of the Kapaa and Hanalei churches. At 
Kapaa he was secretary of the church, as well asone of the deacons and a trustee, 
and was also superintendent of the Kapaa Sabbath School during his later years. As 
secretary of the church there, he did valiant work in collecting from the 
congregation the salary of the pastor, which had previously been allowed to become 
much in arrears, and thus placed the church on a greatly improved business 
footing, bringing it up to the standard of the great majority of the other 
Hawaiian churches of the Territory. And as a deacon in the church, he was always 
held in high regard by the church members on account of the solicitude and energy 
displayed by him in aiding the minister in his parochial duties, as well as in 
visiting and comforting the church members, while they were incapacitated by 
suffering or sickness, with his friendly greeting and sage advice. His good work 
in the Sabbath Schools brought its reward in 1912 when, at the annual meeting of 
the Evangelical Association, he was appointed general superintendent of the 
Sabbath Schools of east Kauai. A further reward of faithful service as a church 
worker was received this year, 1914, at the Church Convention held at Waimea when 
he was elected Vice-President of the United Christian Endeavor Societies of the 
Island of Kauai. It was his inability to continue with the work he had outlined 
for these societies, after he was confined to his bed by sickness, that caused him 
the greatest regret and sorrow; and often his tears flowed for his absence from 
his church, Sunday School, and C. E. affiliations. The strength of his religious 
convictions and his true Christian spirit was shown by the fervor with which, even 
while on his bed of sickness, he sang the gospel hymns, latterly in a very weak 
voice, and prayed for help and consolation from heaven every night and morning, 
even to the last. The end was reached on the morning of Thursday, December 3rd, 
and even then the vigor of his Christian spirit was shown when he asked those 
attending on his bedside to read to him Psalm 15, after which he repeated the 
Psalm, "Lord, who shall abide in thy Tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy 
hill?" Then he uttered a short prayer and joined the friends present in the Lord's 
Prayer. A few moments afterwards, his soul took its departure, and his wife and 
daughter and friends were left mourning at his bedside. --Charles S. Dole. 

 

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