David Kalākaua Kawānanakoa (March 10, 1904 – May 20, 1953), also known as Prince Koke, was a member of the
House of Kawānanakoa
The House of Kawānanakoa, or the Kawānanakoa Dynasty, are descendants to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
Origins
A collateral branch of the reigning House of Kalākaua (from Kauaʻi island) and descendants of chiefs of areas such as ...
and the only son of Prince
David Kawānanakoa
David Laʻamea Kahalepouli Kinoiki Kawānanakoa (February 19, 1868 – June 2, 1908) was a prince of the Hawaiian Kingdom and founder of the House of Kawānanakoa. He was in the line of succession to the Hawaiian throne. After Hawaii's annexatio ...
and Princess
Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa.
Life
He was born on March 10, 1904, at
Honolulu
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,
Oahu
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. He was
christened at the
St. Augustine's Church on May 22, 1904.
His siblings were
Abigail Kapiolani Kawānanakoa
Abigail Helen Kapiʻolani Kawānanakoa (March 14, 1903 – April 8, 1961) was a member of the House of Kawānanakoa and the eldest daughter of Prince David Kawānanakoa and Princess Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa.
Life
She was born in Honolulu, ...
and
Lydia Liliuokalani Kawānanakoa
Helen Lydia Kamakaʻeha Liliʻuokalani Kawānanakoa (July 22, 1905 – May 19, 1969) was a member of the House of Kawānanakoa and the second daughter of David Kawānanakoa and Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa.
Early life
Born July 22, 1905, Lil ...
.
He was educated abroad due to his father's status as a former prince and politician. He attended Oahu College,
Fay School
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, in
Southborough, Massachusetts
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;
Taft School
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About three-quarters of Taft's roughly 600 students live on the school's ...
,
Watertown, Connecticut
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, and Belmont Military Academy,
Belmont, California
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. Kawānanakoa served in
World War II
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with the
US Coast Guard
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.
Kawānanakoa married three times: in 1929 to Eileen Hutchins, daughter of
Rear-Admiral
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Charles Thomas Hutchins,
USN
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, and
Commander of the
US Pacific Fleet
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. He divorced Eileen in 1931 and remarried to Gertrude Leilani (October 17, 1904 – January 26, 1978) in 1941. She was the former wife of Lindsay Anton Faye, and she later married George Rossman Humphrey.
He entered a
common-law marriage
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with Arvilla Kinslea. On October 24, 1937, after a wild party, Kinslea was found dead and stabbed in the neck with a broken piece of
crockery
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. Four years before, Kawānanakoa had received a suspended sentence for killing a woman due to his reckless driving. He confessed to the murder of Kinslea and was sentenced to several years in prison.
Kawānanakoa married a third time, on October 27, 1949, to Cecelia Kuliaikanuʻuwaiʻaleʻale Parker-Waipa (1907–1981), daughter of Stephen Keaolani Parker-Waipa and Helen McCabe Wong and granddaughter of Robert Parker Waipa, a former
Royal Guard
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captain for King Kalākaua.
Kawānanakoa died of a
heart attack
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at
Honolulu
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, Oahu, on May 20, 1953, at the age of 49. He was buried there in the
Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii
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at Mauna Ala in
Nuuanu Valley. He was the last royal to be interred at the Royal Mausoleum.
He died without children. The Kawānanakoa family survives through the descendants of his sisters
Abigail Kapiolani Kawānanakoa
Abigail Helen Kapiʻolani Kawānanakoa (March 14, 1903 – April 8, 1961) was a member of the House of Kawānanakoa and the eldest daughter of Prince David Kawānanakoa and Princess Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa.
Life
She was born in Honolulu, ...
and
Lydia Liliuokalani Kawānanakoa
Helen Lydia Kamakaʻeha Liliʻuokalani Kawānanakoa (July 22, 1905 – May 19, 1969) was a member of the House of Kawānanakoa and the second daughter of David Kawānanakoa and Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa.
Early life
Born July 22, 1905, Lil ...
.
References
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1904 births
1953 deaths
House of Kawānanakoa
Pretenders to the Hawaiian throne
Princes of Hawaii
American military personnel of Native Hawaiian descent
People convicted of murder by Hawaii
Fay School alumni
Taft School alumni