Kohala Obituary 3/8/2019
Clement “Smokey” Kaopua Kanehailua died March 8, 2019, at age 85. Born Sept.14, 1933, in North Kohala, he worked as a cowboy and bulldozer operator at Kahua Ranch, served in the Hawaii National Guard and was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran.
In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (adrc.ucsd.edu/givenow.html).
He is survived by his wife, Patricia Kanehailua; siblings, Bertha (Donald) Walls, DaveyAnn Hao, Dorothy (Benjamin) Badua, Gertrude Glory, Rocky (Melva) Perez, Earline (Theodore) Miller, John Pua Kanehailua, Lawrence Kiha (Janice) Kanehailua, Nona Kanehailua, Arlene (Marlon) Ramones; sons, Milton (Christine) Kanehailua, Raymond (Marilynn) Kanehailua, Scott (Francine) Higley, Clement Kanehailua Jr., James Wilson, Joseph Kanehailua; daughters, Ann (Timothy) Kanehailua-Coito, Deanna (Lafi) Tuiletufuga, Jeanette (Glenn) Goodrich; 26 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren.
Arrangements by Eternal Hills Memorial Park, Oceanside, California.
