Aunty Gwen,

Please Know I Am So Very Grateful to You for Helping me while being my Social Worker back in the Days at Hale Aha at Queen Lili’uokalani Children’s Center at my Home in Punalu’u.  My Husband had 2 Girls with his 1st Wife and She also had a Son. Sadly She Ua Hala ( Died) way to Early.
We Married later on and I Raised the 3 of Them and we also had 3 Children of our own. Without that Financial,  Communal, and Mental Help Support it would have been Very Tough! 
MAHALO AUNTY GWEN 🌺.   I L♥️VE  YOU !
Momi Greene

Gwen was also my Ohana’s Friend as She Lived in Ka’a’awa.
I am so Happy that I was able to spend Time with Her when I Lived on Maunakea for 6 Months in 2019.

Missing Gwen... Every day there is some reminder. An old email call to action or I will get a funny one I would want her to see it and laugh again knowing she will GET IT! Get the political humor especially... 


Aloha e ka 'ohana Kim/Niheu,

My profound aloha and condolences to you all. Your mother (grandmother) and more was a dear friend and coworker. I miss her understated yet ever-present strength to support and defend the keiki, opio and 'ohana of Hawai'i. 
Humbly pleased to work with her at the QLCC Windward Unit, Gwen was always supportive and brought in many community members to me, a malihini to Ko'olau Loa. 
Her legacy at QLCC and in the Hawaiian Movement is vast and enduring. May we all be comforted by her memory and take up the torch that she and countless kupuna lit for our future generations.

Me ke aloha,
Bill Rezentes 


18 June 2023

I attended Liholiho Elementary school in Kaimuki around the early 1950s. I met Gwendolyn and her younger sister where they were residing temporarily on Pahoa Av near 6th Av.

I have been residing in California since 1957 and often think back about lost friendships. Gwendolyn’s name came up in the deep trenches of my memory so I looked for her name on the internet. Bingo! 

We began communicating via text messages and shared our decades of our paths. I told her that I had an autographed album from Skippy and Israel Kamakawiwo’ole and she shared that her former husband was also from Ni’ihau.

Suddenly a few months ago, she stopped 
correspondence and I knew something 
terrible occurred.

It is with great sadness that I read about her in the orbituary.





















































It is with heavy heart that I return to the internet just now and confirm the sad news.

The scent if wild musk will always remind of her… aloha forever mana wahine.

Gwen was a woman who fought for causes she believed in!   Joyce Azama

This is Gwen reading a letter to TMT partners outside of the Supreme Court.  
She was always down to stand strong with any Aloha ʻĀina action, and added her own glowing light every time!

I will always remember Gwen as a kind and generous person, and a fighter for justice.  She was a warrior.  She made a difference.  And she will be remembered with much aloha.  A hui hou, tita.

OBITUARY

Gwendolyn Epuni Kim

January 2, 1943 – May 24, 2023

Hawaiian Memorial Park Cemetery & Funeral Services

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