Cynthia A. Timberlake of Aiea, HI passed away peacefully at home on November 27, 2021. She was born on September 1, 1926 in Denver, CO. to Julius and Lillian Alford. After her father’s passing, her mother packed up the family and moved to Phoenix, AZ by way of Wickenburg, AZ where her Aunt Hazel lived. …
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Cynthia A. Timberlake of Aiea, Hi died peacefully at home on November 27, 2021. She had celebrated her 95th birthday just three months earlier. In her long life she had been a wife, a mother, and the Head Librarian at Bishop Museum in Honolulu. Cynthia was the older of two children. She was born in …
A thousand tributes, nay, a million tributes, and we’re left with the music. Fortunately it’s glorious. Thank you, Ms. Franklin. You truly were The Queen of Soul.
The Brothers Cazimero have been all-stars in the Hawai’ian music scene since about 1970. In 1975, I think, they left their previous band and began performing as a duo. I saw them once when they did a Christmas concert at the Bishop Museum in 1983. They were major contributors to the cultural revival of things …
Allman died today of unspecified causes after several years of health issues. He co-founded the Allman Brothers Band with his brother Duane in 1969 and cut several hugely successful albums. The band suffered the loss of Duane to a motorcycle accident in 1971 and then the loss of bassist Berry Oakley at almost the same …
Well, sorta rest in peace. skirts at Fox News today will be lowered to half-mast — Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) May 18, 2017 Alexandra Petri’s column is worth the subscription price of the WaPo all by itself.
A friend of 36 years passed away last June, and today there was a scattering of ashes and a celebration of his life at Queen’s Surf Beach in Waikiki. There were probably 60-70 people there. Our relationship was primarily one of working together until we both moved on from those jobs, and then it was …
I remember reading “Watership Down” in high school. I’m a little surprised that its author, Richard Adams, was still alive. He passed away today at 96. In his honor I’m going to use a word from his most famous book to describe how we on the liberal side of America have felt since it became …
I got word tonight that an old friend died on Saturday, June 25 in Oregon. He’d moved there earlier this year with his wife of nearly 45 years. I’m stunned. It was cancer, but neither Peter nor his wife ever mentioned it or complained about it. Peter was the guy who in 1980 showed me …
And the Beatles era