{"id":87645,"date":"2026-08-25T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/?p=87645"},"modified":"2026-08-23T23:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T23:10:42","slug":"taps-william-kahele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2026\/08\/25\/taps-william-kahele\/","title":{"rendered":"TAPS: William Kahele"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">William &#8220;Uncle Bill&#8221; K. Kahele, 73, of Hilo died June 28 at Hilo Benioff Medical Center. Born in Hilo and raised in in Milolii, he was employed by Loomis Security, worked as nightclub securiy and was a\u00a0Hawaii Army National Guard\u00a0veteran. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visitation Saturday, Aug. 22, at Dodo Mortuary Chapel. Memorial service Casual attire; flowers welcome.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Survived by\u00a0wife, Ruth Kahele of Hilo; sons, William Kahele of Hilo, Derwin (Leonell) Kahele of Pahoa and Nicalos Kahele of Hilo; daughter-in-law, Clarice Kahele of Hilo; sisters, Germaine Kila of Oahu, Harollyn Kahe&#8217;e of Hilo; brother, Jordan Kahele of Hilo; sisters-in-law, Paulette Iopa of Hilo, Susan Lebehn, Maggie (Edward) Martinez and Rachel Kaholoa&#8217;a of Kona, Elizabeth Polido, Gay Polido, Marilyn Polido and Lorna (Raymond) Kalili of Pahala; brothers-in-law, Solomon Polido of Hilo, Ken (Jo Ann) Polido of Kurtistown, Edward (Sandra) Polido and Ricky (Erika) Polido of Pahala; 14 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; nieces, nephews and extended family. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The State of Hawaii, Department of Defense (HIDOD)\u2019 Retiree News does not endorse any of the external hyperlinks listed or posted on this site. This includes linked websites, information, products, or services contained therein. We are a government run website for which transparency and accountability are paramount. HIDOD cannot have the appearance of endorsement and are bound by the HIDOD Social Media Policy concerning political posts being respectful, honest, and accurate. Operational Security will additionally be adhered to. Retiree News does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at linked sites. Some of the sites linked to may limit the number of stories you can access without a paid subscription. All links were provided with the intent of meeting the mission of the HIDOD\u2019s version of Retiree News.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William &#8220;Uncle Bill&#8221; K. Kahele, 73, of Hilo died June 28 at Hilo Benioff Medical Center. Born in Hilo and raised in in Milolii, he was employed by Loomis Security, worked as nightclub securiy and was a\u00a0Hawaii Army National Guard\u00a0veteran. Visitation Saturday, Aug. 22, at Dodo Mortuary Chapel. Memorial service Casual attire; flowers welcome.\u00a0 Survived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":17116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"3658,83094,48307,85001,42,30876","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-taps"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87646,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87645\/revisions\/87646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}