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Sites 3,4. $5900 each or $9900 both.808-840-7521 MARY T. ROGERS Mary died peacefully at her Makakilo home on April 1, 2022, in the presence and comfort of her son and daughter-in-law, Pat and Susanna Gonzales-Rogers. Born in Aiea in 1933, she graduated with class of 1951 from Farrington High School, and then attended Hawaii Business College where she obtained the current equivalent of an degree. Mary loved to travel, and in her twenties lived in San Francisco, Guam, South Korea and Japan.

She had a long and successful career in the federal government as a secretary, where she worked for 32 years. The highlight of her career was being selected to be a part of then President advance team for his historic trip to China in 1972. Mary loved the outdoors and fitness. In her thirties she was a certified scuba diver and had a hearty fitness regime well into her eighties that included jogging, swimming, and walking. She loved pets and in addition to the many dogs she owned, she would often adopt a stray neighborhood cat.

greatest loves were of God and family. She was a devout lifelong Christian. Her faith was so strong and evident, that near the end of her life, when a chaplain came to pray for her, she actually ended up praying for and giving a tiny sermon to the chaplain. Mary was an incredibly strong and independent woman who decided that her life had been fulfilled and it was time to return to Ke Akua. All that knew her were quickly immersed in her joy, energy, and generous kindness.

She is survived by her son, Patrick Gonzales-Rogers and her sister, Connie Kaopuiki. funeral services will be held on Wednesday, May 4th, 2022, at Hawaiian Memorial Park Cemetery in Kaneohe. Family and friends may visit from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. with service to follow. ROSALIE HARRIS Rosalie Harris, born March 10, 1942, passed away on January 8, 2022.

She was born in Leyte, Philippines during WW2, retired from U.S. Navy Exchange, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Jesse her husband preceded her in death, during the Viet Nam War. Our beloved mother will always be remembered for her greatest love for God, in love, faith, hope, with her loving family. Survived by sons, Nathaniel L.

Golden, Joseph L. Golden (Rosemarie Galvez), daughter Christina L. Golden; grandchildren Carlos M. Welch, Domingo Tyrone-Jaysnick Welch-Guzman; great-grandchildren Robert Welch Carolena Welch, Jamieson Welch-Guzman. Funeral Services to be held at: Cathedral Of Our Lady Of Peace 10:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m. Arrangements Provided By: Grace Mortuary Services, L.L.C. ELOISE MAE THORNES Sue passed away peacefully at home on January 24, 2022, at the age of 96. She was born on August 22, 1925 in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 2000, she moved to Sarasota, Florida, to live with her daughter.

Sue will be warmly remembered for her kind and gentle spirit, endless curiosity, delightful sense of humor, and inspirational gift of photography. She is survived by her daughter, Carol Leilani Hudson; four grandchildren: Shaan Shirazi, Justin Gant, Michael Hudson and Christy (Hudson) Williams; eight great grandchildren; sister, Marjorie Bains-Jordan and two nieces and a nephew. She was predeceased by her beloved daughter, Judith Gant. life will be Celebrated in November, and her ashes will be scattered at a favorite spot of hers on Oahu. Rosalina Ragrag Agni 81, of Wahiawa, Hawaii, died in Wahiawa on January 15, 2022.

She was born in Kaunakakai, Molokai. Visitation: 10:00 a.m.; Services: 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at Mililani Mortuary, Mauka Chapel. Burial: 12:30 p.m. at Mililani Memorial Park.

Jeffery Helloran Auwae 67, of Nanakuli, Hawaii, died in Honolulu on March 27, 2022. He was born in Honolulu. Visitation: 9:00 a.m.; Services: 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at St. Catholic Church, Nanakuli.

Ronald M. Berinobis 77, of Ocean View, Hawaii, died on March 26, 2022, in Ocean View. He was born in Honolulu. Visitation: 4:00 p.m.; Services: 5:00 p.m. on Friday, April 29, 2022 at Borthwick Mortuary, Maunakea Chapel, Honolulu.

Burial: 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, the 30th at Hawaiian Memorial Park, Kaneohe. Christine "Tini" Cartwright 72, of Kahuku, Hawaii, died on January 27, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born in Wahiawa. Visitation: 10:00 a.m.; Services: 11:00 a.m.

on Monday, April 25, 2022 at Mililani Mortuary, Makai Chapel. Burial: 12:30 p.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Patrick L. Conroy 75, of Honolulu, Hawaii, died in Honolulu on April 1, 2022.

He was born in Honolulu. A private Celebration of Life will be held. Syrus Crisostomo 14, of Waipahu, Hawaii, died in Aiea on March 20, 2022. He was born in Honolulu. Visitation: 10:00 a.m.; Services: 12:00 p.m.

on Friday, April 29, 2022, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Waipahu. Rogelio C. Del Rosario 77, of Waipahu, Hawaii, died on February 14, 2022 in Ewa Beach. He was born in Sinait, Ilocos Sur, Philippines.

Visitation: 8:30 a.m.; Services: 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, at Mililani Mortuary, Makai Chapel. Burial: 11:00 a.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Eleanor S.

De Veas 80, of Mililani, died in Honolulu on Friday, March 18, 2022. She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Visitation: 10:30 a.m.; Services: 11:30 a.m. on Friday, April 29, 2022, at Hawaiian Memorial Park Chapel. Burial: 2:00 p.m.

at the Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery. Llaisaane T. Fifita 65, of Aiea, Hawaii, died in Aiea on April 3, 2022. She was born in Tonga. Services: 9:00 a.m.

12:30 p.m. on Friday, April 29, 2022, at Borthwick Mortuary, Maunakea Chapel, Honolulu. Burial: 1:00 p.m. at Hawaiian Memorial Park, Kaneohe. Dick Fukushima 96, of Pukalani, Maui, Hawaii, died in the Maui Memorial Medical Center on March 6, 2022.

He was born in Hawaii on February 8, 1926. Rodney Wayne Johnson 80, of Kailua, Hawaii, died in Kaneohe on March 22, 2022. He was born in Honolulu. Visitation: 10:00 a.m.; Services: 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 30, 2022 at Keolu Stake Center LDS.

Burial: 3:00 p.m. at Hawaiian Memorial Park Cemetery. Heleena Kaua Kauapuakea-O-Hana Maikai 43, of Kaneohe, Hawaii, died in Kaneohe on April 6, 2022. She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Mark C.

Propios 81, of Kapolei, Hawaii, died on January 24, 2022 in Kapolei. He was born in Kahuku. Visitation: 10:30 a.m.; Services: 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at Mililani Mortuary, Mauka Chapel. Burial: 12:30 p.m.

at Mililani Memorial Park. Florence Ordonez Rafanan 89, of Honolulu, Hawaii, died in Honolulu on March 11, 2022. She was born in Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii. Visitation: 5:00 p.m.; Services: 6:00 p.m. on Monday, April 25, 2022, at Diamond Head Mortuary.

Burial: 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, the 26th at the Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery. Carlito James "Jimmy" Retuta 70, of Waipahu, Hawaii, died in Waipahu on January 30, 2022. He was born in Honolulu. Visitation: 8:30 a.m.; Services: 9:30 a.m.

on Monday, April 25, 2022, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Waipahu. Burial: 11:00 a.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Florenda Butac Salvatera 75, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, died in Aiea on February 7, 2022.

She was born in Bangui, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. Visitation: 8:30 a.m.; Services: 9:45 a.m. on Thursday, April 28, 2022, at Mililani Mortuary, Mauka Chapel. Burial: 11:00 a.m. at Mililani Memorial Park.

Alejandro Tabulog Tabladillo 82, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, died in Honolulu on January 29, 2022. He was born in Cabaroan, Pinili, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 28, 2022 at Mililani Mortuary, Mauka Chapel. Mass: 11:00 a.m.

on Friday, the 29th at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Ewa Beach. Burial: 12:30 p.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Marlis J. Ulsh 81, of Kailua, Hawaii, died in Kailua on April 12, 2022.

She was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. your complete news source. 538-NEWS your complete news source. IN MEMORY DENOTES U.S. MILITARY VETERAN I was talking to my neigh- bor Ivan Young this week.

He told me he used to work at Delica- tessen at Ala Moana Center with 18-year-old John Gotanda, now presi- dent of Hawaii Pacific Uni- versity. had the best hot pastrami sandwiches (with coleslaw and a pickle). Their pizza was pretty good, too, Ivan re- membered. I also loved the lemon chicken at its sister restaurant, Chinese Kitchen, sold only on Satur- days. There are a lot restau- rants I wish were still around.

When I was going to the University of Hawaii in the 1970s, Mr. Sub opened at 1035 University Ave. in Alley. I know how they made them so good, but I loved those subs and ate there two to three times a week. Interestingly, Gilbert Saka- guchi opened a Breakfast, Steak, Pasta restaurant in 1999 in the very same spot as Mr.

Sub, 20 years later. The food was amazing. The portions were huge and the prices affordable. We went there all the time. A 1-pound top sirloin teriyaki steak with pasta and salad was $9.95.

They also had clam lin- guine chicken with roasted red peppers ($10.95) and shrimp scampi It was so good! I asked readers what their favorite places to dine were, in days gone by, and what they wish they could still or- der today. a few of their submissions. Swiss Inn Jack Davis said he had many delicious dinners at the Swiss Inn in sleepy Niu Valley until it closed in 2000. Martin Wyss in the kitchen and his wife, Jeanie, and her sister, Sharon Fujii, running the dining room, we had the perfect restaurant for any occasion. couple we often saw dining there was Arthur and Kathryn Murray, who obvi- ously enjoyed great food as well as great dancing.

were delighted to find the Swiss Hibiscus restau- rant in Portland, Ore. run by Martin and daughter, Jennie, and her partner, Tammy, with Jennie reprising her role in the kitchen and Tammy han- dling the dining room as well as Jeanie did. recipes are and the food is just as good as I remembered it. They even serve and sell the salad dressing Martin Ken Fujii fondly remem- bers Swiss Inn as well. know how they did it, but Jeanie and her sister, Sharon, would always greet us by name when we en- tered the restaurant.

And we visited only once or twice a year. How did they remem- ber us? That made a big dif- ference in our affection for the restaurant and the staff. always ended my meal with their peach melba des- sert (named after opera singer Nellie Melba). It was served in classic French style in stemmed Waikiki Sands Bill Souza said Waikiki Sands was a popular place to eat in the 1950s, where the police station is today, next to the Moana, on Waikiki Beach. My dad took us there after he got paid.

all-you-can-eat buf- fet and the fresh mahi were onolicious. young busboy, Danny Kaleikini, sang impromptu at the tables. Kalakaua was two-way traffic and had free on-street parking. If Dad could not find parking within two blocks, he told my mom, go home; too far to Waikiki Sands had a great Alan Okamura said, as surfers with not a lot of money, we saved our nickels and dimes to eat there when we had enough. It was a great place to go and fill up.

They also made the best The Waikiki Sands closed in 1960. Like Like Drive Inn Wayne Shiohira fondly re- members Like Like Drive Inn. closed only recently, my fa- vorite restaurant of the past was Like Like Drive Inn. In the 1960s and whether it was going to a sporting event at the HIC or Civic Au- ditorium, or getting a late- night meal after a movie, our go-to place was always Like James and Alice Nako opened Like Like Drive Inn in 1953 on Keeaumoku Street. had lots of park- ing, good food, friendly wait- resses, and most of all was open 24 hours.

beef tenderloin cut- let was made from real cuts of tenderloin, not formed patties, and the home-style brown gravy all over was the ono. fried rice with Portu- guese sausage and fried egg, or saimin with dashi pre- pared from scratch, made a delicious meal any time of the day. go there after Christmas Eve services, with no problem to accommodate six or eight of us at a table. tried working there part time on weekends as a short-order cook. I was as- signed to the saimin station from 6 p.m.

to 2 a.m. The people I worked with were great, and so were the free meals, but I lasted only a week. I realized that sometimes I had to put out over 400 saimin in three hours, I decided that it the job for me. I pre- ferred being on the other side of the counter, eating, instead of making Coffee Shop Wendy Tolleson said, I really miss are the hot fudge sundaes at Coffee Shop on Nimitz High- way and Lagoon Drive (Cy- cle City is there today). When I was playing with (the musical group) Brandy- wine, we worked a lot of mil- itary clubs at Pearl Harbor and Hickam.

1 a.m., tired, on our way home, we would stop at to hear our friend Jerry sing and play guitar in the Bronco Bar and then get a hot fudge sundae in the diner. God, I miss those! made them bet- ter than Spencecliff, and Kel- Coffee Shop made the best, although was also good. And had the best Roquefort dressing. Do you know how hard it is to get blue cheese, or Roquefort dressing in this town? I think anyone serves it Pasta Pasta on Waialae Avenue prepared their homemade pasta to perfec- tion for this Italian from John Votsis said. day that perfection in Italian cooking can be found at La Cucina Ristorante Votsis also fondly remem- bers the Waimanalo restau- rant Bueno Nalo, because food was It opened in 1981.

my first visit to what I was told was a rough neigh- borhood, I had an Audi with New York license plates and thought, likely to get beaten up for being a New I be more wrong and have come to love and respect Waimanalo and its Lunchroom Milt Yamamoto jumped in with I really Lunchroom on Sheridan Street or Iwilei Road, 1960-70. Great plate lunches with spaghetti salad, Japanese pickled turnip and a single entree or mix of two every day. KauKau 735 N. Nim- itz Highway, next to Hilo Hat- Hamburgers with mustard mayon- naise Wimpy Burgers (where the Blood Bank on Dilling- ham is now). Simple but burgers.

really miss these Tin Tin Chop Suey Dennis Long said: re- member back in the 1970s when good friend Dexter Au and I would often drop by for a late-night bowl of noo- dles in soup at Tin Tin Chop Suey. was a seedy, hole-in- the-wall, tiny dive but the best place for Chinese food after UH games, movies in town, clubbing in Waikiki or after cruising around China- town with friends. Tin Tin, on any given Saturday night, while slurp- ing down your bowl of hot noodles, you could look around at the other cramped booths and see foot-patrol cops, families on the way home from a football game, young college couples on dates, local guys from a nearby pool hall, female Fili- pino taxi dancers on break from their dance hall, trans- vestites from The Glade nightclub and hookers from Hotel Street, all chowing down beside you! A true het- erogeneous, visual Tin Tin opened in 1950 and closed in 1985. It was at 1110 Maunakea St. between Pauahi and Hotel streets.

It was good, cheap and open late, until 2 a.m. weekdays and 3 a.m. on weekends. Readers, which Hawaii restaurants do you really miss, and what would you order if it was still open today? Bob Sigall is the author of the five We books. Send him your questions or suggestions at Readers dish up memories of restaurant favorites AR VI EW I BOB SIGALL STAR-ADVERTISER 1985 Tin Tin Chop Suey on Maunakea Street was open till 3 a.m.

on weekends, until it closed in 1985..