Kauai-Honolulu County HI Archives Obituaries.....Mahelona, Samuel October 27, 1912
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., 10-29-1912
MAHELONA, SAMUEL
KAUAI BOY PASSED AWAY.  Sam Mahelona, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Wilcox, died at 
the Lihue Hospital last Sunday afternoon at 25 minutes to 1 o'clock after a 
lingering illness. The funeral took place in the Lihue church at 3 PM Monday, 
being most impressively conducted by Rev. J. M. Lydgate, after which the remains 
were accompanied to their last resting place by one of the largest gatherings of 
mourners ever witnessed here. The magnificent display of floral offerings 
testified to the esteem in which the deceased was held. The pallbearers were J. H. 
Coney, W. H. Rice, Jr., Charles Rice, Frank Crawford, Mr. Broadbent, and H. 
Wolters. Obituary in the next issue. [The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., 10-
22-1912]
IN MEMORIAM.  Born at Kawaihao, Honolulu, March 7, 1884, Sam Mahelona was thus in 
the very prime of life when he was called hence. As a very little boy, he began 
his education at Honolulu's first Kindergarten and continued it successively at 
Punahou, Behnont, and San Jose, fitting himself carefully for the business career 
which he had chosen. With a physical constitution none too robust at the best, it 
was perhaps unfortunate that he should have chosen an occupation involving 
sedentary life which, in conjunction with great social popularity, left him little 
time for fresh air and exercise. Immediately on his return from school, he secured 
the position of assistant cashier in the Lihue Branch of the Bank of Hawaii, which 
he resigned only to accept the responsible position of receiver in the First 
National Bank of Hawaii, a position which he held until failing health compelled 
him to resign. To a rare degree he was gifted with the kindly generous graces of 
frankness, courtesy, geniality, and responsiveness, qualities which commend their 
owners to all about them. And with him these were not acquired graces, worn more 
or less awkwardly, but natural and easy, became inherent. These qualities win 
favor and make friends at every turn. This was eminently the case with Sam 
Mahelona. Wherever he went he made friends even up to the last hours of his life 
and under the most trying circumstances. To know him at all every casually was to 
like him; to know him intimately was to love him, and this must explain the 
enthusiastic admiration of a very wide circle of acquaintances, as well as the 
deeper devotion of more intimate friends. 


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