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Honolulu Advertiser & Star-Bulletin Obituaries January 1 - December 31, 2002 O MERLIN "BARBARA" KAUWENAOLE OAMILDA, 80, of Waipahu, died Jan. 28, 2002. Born in Honolulu. A 1941 graduate of Waipahu High School; a member of the Waipahu Cosmopolitan Senior Citizens Club. Survived by husband, Ricardo "Kadong"; daughters, Gwen Montibon, Gretchen Dayanan and Georgette Montibon; sons, Gene, Glenn, Gary, Gordon and Guy; 16 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; brother, Howard Roberts; sister, Peggy Roberts; hanai sons, Ray Desmet and Ray Ramos; hanai daughters, Ronnie Desmet and Rose Ramos. Visitation 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Mililani Memorial Park makai chapel, service 7 p.m. Visitation also 8:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Joseph Church, Mass 9:45 a.m.; burial 11 a.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Aloha attire. [Adv 3/2/2002] Ricardo L. "Kadong" Oamilda was one of the amateur athletes immortalized on a plaque at Hans L'Orange Park as part of the history of Waipahu. He was remembered as one of the most versatile athletes of those early and mid-20th century days when Oahu Sugar Co. was not only the workplace for waves of immigrant workers, but also provided a structure for competition in baseball, boxing, swimming and other sports. Oamilda died June 14, 2002 at the age of 85. He retired in 1980 after 48 years with the sugar plantation. "Rick was a terrific ballplayer; he was first baseman. And he was a boxer and a runner," said his contemporary and former teammate Fred Daguman. "There was no more television then. We had all kind games. He was a happy-go-lucky guy." Oamilda was one of the storytellers for a 1999 tribute to Hans L'Orange, a former plantation manager whose legacy is the park that is still the recreational center of the town. Oamilda was born in Carcar, Cebu City, the Philippines. He is survived by sons Gene, Glenn, Gary, Gordon and Guy; daughters Gwen and Georgette Montibon and Gretchen Dayanan; sister Esidra Oamilda; 16 grandchildren; and 15 great- grandchildren. Also surviving are hanai children Ray and Ronnie Desmet, Ray and Rose Ramos. A funeral Mass will be said at 9:45 a.m. Thursday at St. Joseph Church, Waipahu. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Mililani Mortuary, where a 7 p.m. wake service will be held, and after 8:30 a.m. Thursday at the church. The family suggests aloha attire. [SB 22/6/2002] Ricardo "Kadong" Oamilda was a plantation worker who never finished school, never owned a car and never had a telephone for many years. Despite his modest lifestyle, he was able to put his eight children through private school and still had time to excel in sports. Oamilda, who worked for O'ahu Sugar Plantation for 48 years, died June 14, 2002. He was 85. Oamilda was born Feb. 11, 1917, in Carcar, Cebu City, the Philippines, and his family moved to Hawai'i when he was 1. They lived in Waipahu, and plantation life was all he knew. Oamilda finished only the seventh grade, but he promised himself that it would be different for his children. "It was a choice between going to school or having nice clothes or a nice house," said his daughter Gwen Montibon. "It was either education or the frills. We didn't have the frills." But Montibon said the family enjoyed the plantation lifestyle. "Most of us have come back home to live in Waipahu," Montibon said. "We enjoyed everything that the plantation had offered, the different cultures, different races." When he wasn't working, Oamilda played on plantation teams and became a famous multisport athlete. He boxed, bowled, golfed, skated and played basketball, volleyball and tennis. He also played with the Braves of Hawai'i Major League baseball, and many believed he could have made it as a professional in the big leagues. But Oamilda had his priorities set. "We often wondered why he never went beyond Waipahu, but in the later years we found out that Dad had made the decision that his family was first. His career was not important," Montibon said. In 1999, Oamilda was included on a Legends in Sports monument celebrating the 75th anniversary of Waipahu's Hans L'Orange Park. In addition to Montibon, Oamilda is survived by his other daughters, Gretchen Dayanan and Georgette Montibon; sons, Gene, Glenn, Gary, Gordon and Guy; 16 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; hanai sons, Ray Desmet and Ray Ramos; hanai daughters, Ronnie Desmet and Rose Ramos; and sister, Esidra Oamilda. Visitation is 6 to 9 p.m. today at Mililani Mortuary Mauka Chapel; service at 7 p.m. Visitation also 8:30 a.m. tomorrow at St. Joseph Church; Mass at 9:45 a.m. Burial will be at 11 a.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. [Adv 26/6/2002] THELMA T. OANDASAN, 88, of Wahiawa, died April 21, 2002. Born in Kalihi. A retired cook at Wahiawa General Hospital. Survived by husband, Severo; daughter, Evelyn Kelai; sons, Lawrence "Larry" and Roy Machado; 15 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren. Visitation 6 to 9 p.m. Monday at Wahiawa Seventh-Day Adventist Church; service 7 p.m.; burial 10 a.m. Tuesday at Mililani Memorial Park. Casual attire. Arrangements by Mililani Mortuary. [Adv 26/4/2002] VICTORIA "VICKY" ANGOT OANDASAN, 72, of Kailua, Kona, Hawai'i, died July 12, 2002. Born in Pa'auilo, Hawai'i. King Kamehameha's Kona Beach Hotel laundry worker. Survived by husband, Isidoro; sons, Effren Pascua and Jason; daughters, Luviminda Pascua-Clark, Vilma Pascua-Lindo, Lisa Gomera, Florinda Tadio and Jessica Tossmann; stepsons, Sidney and Conrad; stepdaughters, Francine Parez and Stephannie; brothers, Albert and Martin Angot; 24 grandchildren; three great- grandchildren. Visitation 5 to 9 p.m. today at St. Michael's Catholic Church, Alii Drive, Kailua, Kona; rosary 7 p.m. Visitation also 8 to 10 a.m. tomorrow at the church; Mass 10 a.m.; burial in church cemetery. Light colored, or aloha, attire. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary, Kona. [Adv 18/7/2002] GEORGE MORISO OASA, 89, of Honolulu, died July 19, 2002. Born in Makaweli, Kaua'i. Retired Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Shop 31 general foreman. Survived by wife, Janet; daughters, Claire Muraoka and Lorraine Chun; three grandchildren; sisters, Jane Wataru and Joan Boyd. Service 3 p.m. Sunday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. No flowers. Casual attire. [Adv 24/7/2002] PIA DAHLIN OASAY, 83, of Honolulu, died Feb. 27, 2002. Born in Badoc, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. Survived by sons, Dionisio and Antonio; sisters, Leonarda Pagatpatan and Lourdes Pascua; six grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren. Visitation 9 a.m. Saturday at Mililani Mortuary Mauka Chapel; service 10 a.m.; burial 11 a.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Casual attire. [Adv 28/3/2002] RUSSELL TIMOTHY OBAR , 37, of Kilauea, Kaua'i, died Sept. 27, 2002. Survived by mother, Gladys Obar; sisters, Nichelle, Dezeree, Gloria Paris and Corinna Obar; brother, Jamie;nieces, nephews and cousins. Service 11 a.m. Saturday at Waioli Hulia Church, Hanalei. Casual attire. Arrangements by Borthwick/Kauai Mortuary. [Adv 03/10/2002] CONSUELO M. OBIENA, 86, of Las Vegas, died June 8, 2002. A retired schoolteacher. Survived by children, Gloria Obiena, Lynda Tirao and Joseph Diniega; two grandchildren; brother, Jose Magaway; sisters, Trinidad Torres, Ester Velasco and Salvacion Damian. Visitation 8 to 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Anthony's Church, Kalihi; service 10 a.m. Burial to follow at Valley of the Temples Memorial Park. Casual attire. Arrangements by Nuuanu Mortuary. [Adv 20/6/2002] ESIDRA SAROSAD OBRA , 92, of Honolulu, died July 9, 2002. Born in Cebu, Philippines. Survived by son, Catalino Gedarro; daughter, Rosalia Strickland; stepson, Raymond; 36 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren. Private service held. Arrangements by Mililani Downtown Mortuary. [Adv 25/7/2002] Florence Frances O'Brien, 78, of Honolulu, formerly of Brooklyn, N.Y., died Nov. 14, 2002 in St. Francis Hospice-West. She was born in Brooklyn. She is survived by sons William F., Michael P. and Joseph; daughter Kathleen F.; and sister Margaret Rossi. Services to be held in Brooklyn. [SB 20/11/2002 John Thomas O'Brien, 90, of Honolulu and Woodstock, Ill, first director of the Look Laboratory for the University of Hawaii, died Thursday June 13, 2002 in Woodstock. "He was extremely productive and ran the laboratory on a high and professional plane," said Hans-Jurgen Krock, researcher who currently directs the laboratory. The laboratory was established by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1963 to study tsunamis in Hilo Bay. The study evaluated if a weather barrier could be built to protect Hilo "and concluded that it could but nobody would really want it because it would basically be a monster," Krock recalled. The Corps turned the laboratory over to the UH several years later and O'Brien became director, serving until 1977. The laboratory formed the basis for the UH ocean engineering department, Krock said. O'Brien served in the Army Reserve, earning two Bronze Stars during World War II. He was a University of Minnesota graduate and a world renowned ocean engineer. He specialized in "Waves, Wind and Data" at Look Laboratory, at the California institute of Technology and Port Huenume in California. Under his leadership, Look Laboratory made model studies of most major features of Hawaii's coastline, including Barber's Point Harbor, the reef runway, Kuhio Beach and various other features of coastal barriers and beach erosion questions, Krock said. Studies were done on sand mining for beach replenishment, effects of hurricanes and tsunamis, prediction of runup of tsunami waves and work related to ocean thermal energy conversion, he said.