Kauai-Honolulu County HI Archives Obituaries.....Heapy, Susan Dorcas (Moore) November 30, 1916
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., 12-5-1916
HEAPY, SUSAN DORCAS nee MOORE
MRS. S. D. HEAPY DIES IN HONOLULU.  News was received on Thursday of the death in 
the city that day of Mrs. S. D. Heapy, teacher in the school at Mana, Kauai. Mrs. 
Heapy had not been well for several months and went to the city for special 
treatment. Funeral services were held in Central Union Church at 4 o'clock Friday 
afternoon, and the body was taken to Wailuku, Maui, where the father and sister of 
the deceased were buried. Mrs. Susan Dorcas Heapy was born at Hickory Flat, 
Alabama, July 30, 1857, and was the daughter of the late John A. Moore, an 
educator well known on the Pacific Coast and who came to the Islands in 1881, 
teaching in various schools here until his death in 1901. Mrs. Heapy graduated 
from the Girls' High School in San Francisco and the San Jose Normal School, after 
which she went to Milan, Italy, to have her voice trained. At that time she gave 
great promise as a vocalist, but a severe cold on one occasion impaired her voice 
to a considerable degree. She returned to California and taught school there for a 
while and on a second trip to Europe married John Heapy of William Heapy & Sons, 
merchants, of Liverpool. By this marriage there were three children, but only one 
(Stafford Heapy of Honolulu) survived. A sister also survives -- the wife of Dr. 
Bishop of Portland, Oregon, the latter a son of the late Dr. Sereno E. Bishop of 
Honolulu; and also a brother residing in London. The deceased was widowed about 
1887 and spent the succeeding five years in Europe, returning then to the United 
States and teaching in Oregon. She came to the Islands in 1894 to reside with her 
father at Lahaina. In 1900 another year was spent in Europe, and upon returning to 
Honolulu she became associated with Miss A. M. Felker in the Kaahumanu school. She 
left this school to become principal of Pohukaina and retired from that to assist 
in the establishment of the Kaiulani Home for working girls. After this 
institution had been successfully launched, she remained with it for some years as 
matron and manager. About 1906 Mrs. Heapy made an extensive tour of the Orient and 
shortly after was asked to chaperon Miss Beatrice Campbell, now Mrs. G. C. 
Beckley, to the coronation of King George of England. Mrs. Beckley and Mrs. Heapy 
spent the following two years touring the United States, and upon their return, 
the latter was given charge of the school at Mana, Kauai, where she spent the 
remainder of her life. Mrs. Heapy was a member of the Central Union Church and 
Woman's Board of Missions, in Honolulu, and of the Waimea Literary Society on 
Kauai, and was considered quite a factor in social and literary efforts wherever 
located. [The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., 10-31-1916]
A WOMAN WHO WAS KIND TO EVERYONE.  The Friend, last issue, contains the following 
tribute to the late Mrs. Heapy:  Susan Dorcas Heapy is a name that will be 
treasured through life by many quiet folk all over this Territory. Mrs. Heapy was 
splendidly endowed with a physical frame of strength and abounding vitality. She 
had a largeness of power and an overflowing vigor which opened the way for the 
free entrance of her influence into everyone she met. She was also a woman of 
unusual culture. Growing up in a home devoted to the cause of education, under a 
father whose life had been given to training the young, she had the advantage not 
only of sound instruction but also of wide travel while still young. She 
disciplined herself to observe, acquired several foreign languages, and throughout 
life maintained a close acquaintance with the best things the world over. It was a 
delight to converse with her, her knowledge was so accurate and so inclusive. Her 
scholarship was not technical but human, for it was the human touch that always 
appealed most deeply to her. Best of all, she had a cultured spirit. One felt in 
her distinctly the presence and dominance of a soul that had known the discipline 
of long and varied spiritual experience. All these elements combined to form a 
personality of rare beauty. And all that she was and had was lavishly given to 
others. She was irresistibly drawn to everyone because every fellow human being 
was a child of the Great Father and therefore her brother, her sister. Her 
dominating characteristic was love for others, prompting her to serve them. She 
was beautifully unselfish. It was natural to her to give herself generously to 
children, to unmanageable girls, to anyone of any race or any social status, and 
all in the simplest, most friendly way possible. One could not but feel in her the 
touch of the Master. In the best sense she was a woman of the world, a type of the 
golden age dawning in this world. Because she loved much, she was much beloved, 
and many a life is richer for her strengthening friendship. Such a character lives 
on in the conviction of all who knew her. If God lives, then this spirit which 
held so much of the Great Father can never die. Was not this what Jesus meant when 
he said, "Because I live ye shall live also?" 

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