Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 27, Number 8, 1 August 2010 — Mahalo KWO, paying respects in Kalaupapa [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Mahalo KWO, paying respects in Kalaupapa

Please send our Hawaiian newspaper, Ka Wai Ola, to my daughter Stephanie and thank you so very mueh for sending me my paper every month. I really enjoy reading about what's going on. I visited Hawai'i last year with my girls and a granddaughter and we went to Kalaupapa to see my parents' graves: David K. Kamahana and mother Alana Ahlo Kamahana. Hope to visit again this year if everything's well. Emma K. Kamahana Dickerson Havertown, Pennsylvania

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The Kamahanas around their family graves at Kalaupapa: Emma Kamahana Dickerson, sitting, with daughters, from left, are: īhelma Dickerson and Barbara Ahlo Martin, granddaughter Tina Paparo Ciarrocchi and Emma's daughter Yvonne Graham-Solem. They are joined by Kalaupapa resident Danny Hashimoto, who remembers Emma's father David Kamahana, who was sent to Kalaupapa in 1 888 and knew Father Damien de Veuster. - Photo: Courtesy of Valerie Monson