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In the early 1970's the Rudolph Wilhelm Meyer and Kalama Dorcas Waha Descendants gathered for the weekend at the then existant Dole Company On'e Ali'i Park for the first attempted Reunion. It was a great success and my husband and group were the musicians. My Dad, Henry Rudolph Meyer Sr. is the grandson of R. W. and Kalama Meyer. His father; Theodore Thomas Meyer, Sr. their 5th child. We are their progeny. The Legacy they have left we the Descendants are of the Family Home and Lands and of the R. W. Meyer Sugar Mill, which is a Museum today. Many years ago the place was donated to the Friends of the Sugar Mill. R. W. Meyer was the first Superintendant of the Kalawao Peninsula which was a Leper Colony. We have documents of Father Damien to him through the years of his service with the Board of Health. Many of the stories of his success and his children and so on and so forth. We are one of many of his progeny that have upkept with the Genealogy or as we Hawaiians say Mo'okuauhau. Every so often we update as the families relocate and increase. Presently I have an older (1)Brother Henry Jr. that resides with wife Hilda at Lilburn, Georgia, Sister (2)Lynn Moana Meyer Yamaguchi that dwells in Hawaii Kai, Oahu, (3) Odetta Noelani Meyer Keliikipi that lives in Kamalo, Molokai, (4) Brother, Theodore Thomas Meyer, Sr. at the Leahi Hospital in Honolulu, (5) Brother Twin to Ted, Timothy Craig Meyer, Sr. lives on the corner of Kamalo, Molokai, (6)Brother, Wayne that lives on the TT Meyer Lands at Kapuaokoolau, Molokai,(7) Sister,Karen Olani Meyer Anderson that lives in Carlisle, Kentucky, (8) Myself, Wendy Nalani Meyer Kekahuna widowed, residing in Kaunakakai, Molokai, and finally (9) Sister, Karleen Anuhea Meyer at Mililani Oahu, Hawaii. We are all Grandparents, with the exception of Odetta born in Paia, Maui...the rest of us have all been born at the Shingle Memorial Hospital (no longer existing) at the Hoolehua, Molokai area. Our mother never lived to see the birth of any of the Great grandchildren. Dad was the only one to see many of them. He was a graduate of the University of Dayton Ohio with the honors of Sum Cum Laude. Mother did nursing before her marriage, then became a homemaker. Many of her skills and crafts did she teach all of us 5 daughters and Dad taught the 4 boys and Karen to hunt and fish. He retired from the Molokai Ranch (when it was own and operated by the George P. Cooke Family). He and Mother traveled to Micronesia as well as to the Mainland visiting the children and grandchildren that lived there. Mother died in 1979 and Dad in 1990. We remember the values they have expounded to us and would like to claim that we live with their principles. My Paternal great grandparents, grandparents, parents and my spouse and my grandson are buried at the R.W. Meyer Cemetery located adjacent to the Sugar Mill. It is the only private Cemetery only for the families...on the Island of Molokai in the State of Hawaii.
I have a great love of Family History and pray that should our Ancestors and loved ones that have gone before us would be proud to call us their family. Mahalo a nui loa, Wendy Nalani Meyer Kekahuna July 30, 2002
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