Posted on: Friday, February 1,2002
Fund benefits sons of late Maui musician
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Advertiser Staff
WAILUKU, Maui — A fund has been established to benefit the two teenage sons of Maui musician Jim Elliott, 51, who was killed Saturday in a flash-flood near his home in Upper Waiehu.
Elliott was a bassist and singer in one of Maui's best-known bands, Jimmy Mac and the Kool Kats, and used to play on dinner cruises. He also was a massage therapist at the Four Seasons Resort in Wailea and Lei Spa in Lahaina, and a carpenter who built a home for his family.
Elliott and two California women were killed when the Jeep Cherokee they were riding in was swept downstream at Kope Gulch. A former hockey and lacrosse player who lived in Hawai'i for more than 20 years, Elliott sang in the Unity Church choir, and friends said he was an extraordinary father to his two boys, Devin, 17, and Corey, 15.
"Jim touched a lot of lives," said Elliott's wife, Sandy Shiner, a counselor with Hawai'i Employee Assistance Services, a division of Child & Family Service. The couple was nearing their 23rd wedding anniversary, she said.
A memorial service over the ashes will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Unity Church of Maui in Wailuku. Aloha attire is requested. In lieu of flowers, donations to an education fund for Elliott's sons may be sent to 1317A Malaihi Road, Wailuku 96793. Borthwick Mortuary/Norman's is assisting with the arrangements.
Elliott, who was born May 28, 1950, in New York, also is survived by his father, George, of New York; and sisters Laurie Tennant of Pennsylvania and Suzy Glasscock of Georgia.
