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Posted on: Sunday, May 25, 2008

Chaminade rites Friday for kumu hula John Lake

Advertiser Staff

Visitation for kumu hula John Kealamaka'ainana Lake, who devoted his life to preserving native language and traditions, and died May 14 at age 70, will be held at 5 p.m. Friday at Mystical Rose Chapel at Chaminade University. A service will follow at 6:30 p.m. A second visitation will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, with a Mass following at 11:30 a.m. Burial will be held at 12:30 p.m. June 2 at Maui Memorial Park.

Lake was a master chanter, kumu hula, author, researcher, educator and lecturer who retired from full-time teaching at Saint Louis School in 1992.

He is survived by wife, Barbara; children, John "Kekoa," Naomi "Sissy" Lake-Farm and Joshua; hanai son, John Molitau; five grandchildren; and sisters, Joan Kealohaokalani Lake-Farren and Miriam Keawepoepoe Lake.