LANAI, Hawaii (KHON2) — The Lānaʻi Culture and Heritage Center will be honoring the island’s ancestors for Memorial Day weekend, with more than a thousand bouquets prepared for the celebration of life.
More than 1,000 souls call Lānaʻi their final resting place, which inspired the Lānaʻi Culture and Heritage Center to work to preserve their memory.
Every marked grave will be adorned with flowers as a part of the Memorial Day celebrations, with the island community coming together to make hundreds of handmade bouquets.
The island is home to just over 3,000 people and also houses a veterans’ cemetery and a main cemetery that houses many immigrants from all over the world who worked on the pineapple plantations.
The Center is also asking for all island residents to come together on May 26 to participate in a cemetery clean-up and bouquet placing to honor the deceased.