JOHN LAKE, Great teacher, Hawaiian, human being dies
JOHN LAKE
Oct. 11, 1937 – May 14, 2008
HONOLULU — A Maui native praised as “one of the great human beings of our time” died Wednesday on Oahu.
John Keolamaka‘ainanakalahuio-kalanikamehameha‘ekolu Lake — kumu hula of Halau Mele, 32-year educator at St. Louis School in Honolulu and spiritual guide to Hawaiian Canoe Club of Kahului — succumbed to cancer of the larynx at 7:20 a.m. at Straub Clinic & Hospital, family members said. He was 70.
“With the passing of dad, all this means is that our work truly continues, and he has left us definitely with the idea of hooilina, or established legacies,” his daughter, Sissy Lake-Farm of Central Maui, said by phone Wednesday from the family home in Kaimuki, Oahu.
“He has established a firm foundation. . . . All that he has taught and done and has contributed will continue and will flourish,” she said.
She and her hanai brother, Kapono‘ai Molitau, as co-kumu hula of halau Na Hanona Kulike ‘O Pi‘ilani had planned to honor Lake at an event Sat
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