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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Saturday, September 22, 2001

Service Sept. 30 for New York chef Heather Ho

By Dan Nakaso
Advertiser Staff Writer

Services will be held Sept. 30 for Heather Malia Ho, Punahou School graduate, executive pastry chef at New York's Windows on the World restaurant and one of the estimated 6,333 victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

Heather Ho was named one of six "rising star" chefs in 1999.

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Ho, 32, dreamed of owning her own pastry shop and was usually among the first to arrive at the north tower's 107th floor for work at Windows on the World, one of New York's premier restaurants.

She grew up in Manoa, attended Hanahau'oli and Punahou schools, and graduated with honors from Boston University, where she majored in hotel and food management and fell in love with the culinary arts.

After graduating from the prestigious Culinary Institute of America at Hyde Park, N.Y., Ho completed an internship at San Francisco's Aqua. In 1998, she was offered the position of pastry chef at San Francisco's Boulevard restaurant, which gave her the opportunity to live near her mother, Mary L. Ho of San Francisco.

Just a year later, the San Francisco Chronicle food editors named Ho one of six "rising star" chefs. In 2000, San Francisco magazine named her "pastry chef of the year."

Ho spent three years at Boulevard and had just moved to New York with her boyfriend, a musician from New Jersey who had been a bartender at Boulevard.

Ho is the daughter of Honolulu business executive Stuart T.K. Ho and granddaughter of the late Honolulu financier and real estate developer Chinn Ho. She is survived by her father and mother; brother, Peter S. Ho of Honolulu, sister, Cecily L. Sargent of Sydney, Australia; and grandmother, Betty C. Ho of Honolulu.

Services are scheduled for 4:30 p.m. at the Hanahau'oli School courtyard, 1922 Makiki St. Aloha attire. Donations may be made to the Heather Ho Memorial Fund and the Hawai'i Community Foundation. Money will support various organizations, including the New York City Fire Department.