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We mourn the loss of Aunty Kapua, who was a member of Ke Ola Mamo’s board of directors and kupuna council of practitioners of Hawaiian healing traditions. She had an extraordinary upbringing living in a hale pili with her parents and brother. Her childhood experiences embraced education fostered by her schoolteacher mother Myrtle King and the ‘āina-based resourcefulness practiced by her father David Ka‘apu of Punalu‘u.

She once demonstrated for a group of public health educators and dietitians how to dry traditional Hawaiian foods that she and Ka‘iulani Odom carried to the Marquesas for Hōkūle‘a crew members to eat as they made their way home to Hawai‘i.

Dr. Miriam Chang of Pūpūkea was supportive of Aunty Kapua’s efforts to re-establish a kupuna council in Ko‘olauloa, O‘ahu. They share a love of a plant-based healthful diet and from time-to-time they shared patients, such as the one whose external injury wrapped by lā‘au lapa‘au prepared by Kapua left the patient scarless.

She was an avid gardener and farmer, producing both food and medicine. She was full of traditional wisdom and a joyful sense of humor. Aloha to the ‘ohana Ka‘apu, Sproat and Fonoimoana and all who loved her.

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