Service Monday for Dara Rei Onishi, 26
Advertiser Staff
Services for Dara Rei Onishi, a graduate student and administrative assistant to city Managing Director Ben Lee, will be held Monday at Diamond Head Mortuary.
Onishi was killed Aug. 9 when a 5-ton boulder crashed through the wall of her home on Henry Street in Nu'uanu, hitting her as she slept. She was 26.
Dara Onishi graduated Punahou School in 1994.
Onishi was to return to graduate school at Columbia University in New York to pursue a master's degree in education. Her father, Patrick Onishi, served in the administration of Jeremy Harris as city planning director.
Dara Onishi was a 1994 graduate of Punahou School who earned a bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies from Yale University in 1997. She later went to Akita prefecture in Japan to teach English.
In 1999, she returned to Hawai'i and served as an adjunct instructor for Hawai'i Tokai International College and then as the children's program coordinator at the Kahala Mandarin Oriental Hawaii.
Since last summer, she had been pursuing post-graduate studies at the University of Hawaii-Manoa associated with requirements for the Teachers College Teaching of English program.
Onishi is survived by her parents, Patrick and Gail; and brothers, Brady and Blaine.
The service is at 6 p.m. with cremation to follow.
