Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 11, Number 6, 1 June 1994 — Former OHA staff member Enos passes [ARTICLE]

Former OHA staff member Enos passes

OHA trustees and staff ntarked with sadness and aloha the passing of former staff member Andrew "Analu" Kamana'o Enos on April 22. Enos first voIunteered in VOHA to help organize and coordinate fund raising for the first OHA election campaign in August 1980. There were 1 36 candidates whieh ran for the nine OHA board seats. Enos was hired as a clerk by OHA in February 1981 and continued to work faithfully with diligence and untiring service to OHA and Hawaiian beneficiaries until his retirement last year. Enos was born in Hālawa, Moloka'i, second youngest of seven children of Louise Kamana'o and Sam Kahulu Enoki. He attended Hālawa Elementary School and Kilohana lntermediate School, and graduated from Kamehameha School for Boys in 1950. He remained a dedicated Kamehameha alumnus throughout his lile. After graduating from high school, Enos joined the army and in December 1950 was sent to Korea. He was only 18 when after two months on the Korean battlefield, he was captured by the North Koreans. He persevered two and a half years as a prisoner of war, and at the end of the war in August, 1953, he was freed and returned to Hawai'i. His adventuresome spirit led him to re-enlist in October 1953 to serve another three years in Europe.

He then returned to Moloka'i where he met Ululani Rodriguez. They married in California and had three children, Andrew Kamana'o Jr., Adalynne Mahealani, and Joseph Wayne. He had two granddaughters. Grace and Faith. Enos had a lifelong love of sports, from involvement both as an athlete and as a eoaeh for numerous church youth volleyball, softball and basketball teams, both on the Mainland and in Hawai'i. Enos worked as a letter carrier for the Daly City Post Office, a shotgun rider for Loomis Security in Califomia, a supervisor in the eonstruction of a power plant and an atomic plant in Louisiana, and a tour driver in Moloka'i. Playing the 'ukulele was another one of his specialities and he would gladly sing and strum his 'ukulele when invited by any party group. Enos is survived by his children. brother and sisters. and grandchildren. He was buried at Hawai'i State Veterans Cemetery in Kāne'ohe.