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Updated at 1:36 p.m., Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Live radio coverage planned for Aunty Genoa's funeral

By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Staff Writer

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Funeral services for Hawaiian music icon Genoa Keawe will be this week at Borthwick Mortuary and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Laçie.

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Funeral services for Hawaiian music icon Genoa Keawe, set for tomorrow at Borthwick Mortuary, will be carried live on KKNE 940 AM and online at www.am940hawaii.com.

Cox Radio program manager David Daniel said intermittent interviews with musicians and family members will be aired between 4 and 6 p.m., during the visitation. Then at 6 p.m., the actual services will be aired live for about an hour.

Keawe, the First Lady of Hawaiian Music, died Feb. 25 in her sleep at her Papakolea home. She was 89.

On Friday, visitation will be from 9 a.m. to noon at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in La'ie, 55-110 Lanihuli St., near the grounds of the La'ie Hawai'i Temple. The service will be at noon, and burial at 2 p.m. at the La'ie cemetery.

An online tribute to Aunty Genoa will be heard on Harry B. Soria Jr.'s Territorial Airwaves program, starting tomorrow and continuing through March 13. The homage will include a number of Keawe's signature hits, including "Alika," "Papalina Lahilahi," "Ho'onanea" and "Pauoa Liko Ka Lehua." Go to www.hawaiian105.com or www.am940hawaii.com.

The show also airs from noon to 1 p.m. Fridays and from 5 to 6 p.m. Sundays on KKNE 940 AM.

"For this show, we'll trace through some of our favorite Genoa Keawe recordings, along with a few out-of-print cuts that you may not have heard," said Soria in a statement.

Reach Wayne Harada at wharada@honoluluadvertiser.com.