Posted at 10:07 a.m., Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Agreement reached in Honolulu Memorial Park dispute
Advertiser Staff
A four-year feud between board members and plot and niche owners of the aging Honolulu Memorial Park in Nu'uanu over who was responsible for maintenance and upkeep was resolved early this month in O'ahu Circuit Court.An agreement reached between the Friends of Honolulu Memorial Park and board officers Councilman Rod Tam and local businessman Vic Hejmadi stated that Tam and Hejmadi would be responsible for maintaining the cemetery.
Tam and Hejmadi will also have access to two bank accounts in order to keep up with the park's maintenance.
The cemetery is home to the 116-foot tall Sanju pagoda and the remains of 7,000 people are either buried or interred there.
The cemetery closed in 2003.
The original owners, the Richards family, filed for bankruptcy in 2002.
