Aunty Sarah Nākoa was born in Waimalu, ʻEwa on September 2, 1911. She was raised by her grandmother, Kūhinu Manuel, a native of ʻEwa.
Aunty Sarah was married and had two children. Her first husband passed and she married John Nākoa, from Kahakuloa, later. Aunty Sarah was a strong and brilliant woman. She was an ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi translator at Hale Waihona Palapala Kahiko o Hawaiʻi "a hele akula i ke Kulanui." She got her degree in "Aʻo Hawaiʻi" and "ua noho kumu kula nō hoʻi ʻo ia i ka papa ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi makahiki ʻekolu a me ka papa unuhi ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi ma ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi ma Mānoa no kekahi mau makahiki." Afterwards, Aunty Sarah worked for some time at Kamehameha Schools "no ka pono o kāna ʻōlelo makuahine aloha." Sarah Keliʻilolena Nākoa passed on June 14, 1990 at her home in Pālolo Valley. "He kumu kūkahi ʻo ia i aloha nui ʻia. [L.H. 1993]." (from the book Lei Momi o ʻEwa) |