Samuel Pupuhi Has Ceased Breathing the Air of This World
("Pauaho Mai O Samuel Pupuhi I Keia Ola Ana", Nupepa Kuokoa, October 4, 1923)
After months of illness, the callous hands of death reached out and took the life inhabiting the body of Samuel Pekuholo Pupuhi in the evening of Monday, Sept. 10, 1923, from the home of his sister, Mrs. Rebecca Papalimu, at the corner of Alapai Street and King Street, leaving the mortal remains to return to dust.1
His body was taken to Silva's Undertaking Parlors on Nuuanu Street at 3 p.m. The next afternoon, his remains were conveyed to Kawaiahao Cemetery to be interred.
He was born from the loins of Nanalu, his mother, and J. Pupuhi,2 his father, 43 years ago3 at Kipahulu, Maui. Samuel P. Pupuhi, the deceased, was one of many children who originated from the loins of these parents. Many have already passed on to the next world, with only three still living from this large family.
In the early days of his schooling, he was educated at the public school in Kipahulu under the instruction of various teachers and ended his studies at the Kamehameha School for Boys.
He was a skilled searcher of clouded property records in the government office in addition to other real estate work. With his passing, he leaves behind many friends and close companions. The Samuel Pupuhi who lives in Hana, Maui is one of his cousins.
Sam P. Pupuhi was a member of the Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors. Thus, his body was placed in Silva’s Undertaking Parlors under the care of this association before internment and was watched over by members of the group on the night before the funeral procession.
He was a seasoned skirter of the showers of the Rain of the Low Sky,4 a regular of the waters of Helani, a native son of the Love-snatching Wind5 and the Kaupo Rain that Makes One Hide Behind Rock Walls, a traveler who remade a foreign land into an adopted home, and who lay his body down to rest in this adopted land.
He left behind his beloved woman in this world as well as numerous friends and companions who will remember him forever.
- Ecclesiastes 3:20.
- Corrected from T. Pupuhi in the original article.
- On May 4, 1880.
- A poetic name for Hana. See entry No. 1578 in the book “ʻŌlelo Noʻeau: Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings“.
- A poetic name for Kipahulu. See entry No. 1463 in “ʻŌlelo Noʻeau”.
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