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David Mahu "Singy" Anana
Born: January 14, 1931
Passed: April 19, 2009
Family information
Mother: Estella Kaowi Weed Anana Hatchie
Father: Albert Anana
Step Father: John Hatchie
One of 12 children
Spouse: Vanderlyn Ulumaheihei Anana (married August 25, 1956
Children: Daveanne Manu Anana
Dave Allen Keala Anana
Grandchildren: Paige Miki Kalaokananikiekie Okamura
Jean-Luc Kuheleaumoku Kensei Okamura
Isabelle Mahealani Anana
Eden Mahina Ulumaheihei Anana
Education
Graduated from Waialua High & IntermediateSchool in 1950
- "A grand kid, very easy to get along with, Judo Kind (almost), also the A-1 fisherman of Waialua. Ambition: carpenter
- Relished participating in class reunion activities
Attended Honolulu Vocational School (1950-1952 – Associates Degree in 1952
Military
Drafted by US Army 1951-1954
- Basic training at Schofield Barracks
- Stationed at Fort Wainwright, Fairbanks, Alaska
Work History
Employed by a Japanese man as a cabinet maker
Self-employed making mahogany furniture
Abe Construction including building a
- Service station in Ewa
- Market in Waianae
Self-employed as a carpenter/mason then acquired his own backhoe
Built homes, did remodeling
Ono Moa (automated huli huli chicken cookers)
Largest job = 10,000 chickens on a single day
Thoughts / Misc. information
- Was an analytical thinker
- Skilled at creating things to help him get a job done
- Had fond memories of taking judo as a young man
- Learned Japanese phrases from his friends
- A community servant
- Local churches
- Community groups
- . . . anyone and everyone!
- Wanted things done in a specific way
- Would not hire anyone who walked in with their hands in their pockets
- Kept things he knew he could use
- Hard on his workers . . . and children
- We (his children & grandchildren) would learn how to drive the tractor at a young age
- Set his own fashion statement:
- White crew neck t-shirt / khaki pants / belt / white socks & shoes
- White crew neck t-shirt / green fatigue pants / belt / white socks & shoes
And when the camouflage pants came on the scene, he switched to denim because he didn’t like printed pants
- White crew neck t-shirt / denim jeans / belt / white socks & shoes
- White crew neck t-shirt / cut off denim jeans / belt / white socks & shoes
He usually had a pencil on his right ear, and a white face towel (his ‘nose rag’) hanging from his right-rear pocket.
- Many people may have learned to reverse using the side and rearview mirrors from him
- At chicken sales, he would remind us that the customer was always right; he insisted that we had to fold the brown packages by lining up all the folds on the side of the bag, fold the top over twice before stapling.
- Pulled up and put down boats at Haleiwa Harbor
- Wanted people who worked for him to have their own shoes & tools.
- Loved his grandchildren
- A people person
- Loved the ocean - he was a skilled diver and fisherman; would teach us how to use landmarks to find the lobster holes. He would swim out to the small islands to the left of the Waimea Bay rock to pick ha’uki’uki. If we couldn’t swim out there on our own, he would seal a 5 gallon bucket and float us out to the island.
- He would rescue people in distress on land and in the ocean
- Worked hard as a teenager
- Would be at the harbor watching the tide when there was a tidal wave warning
- Cleared different drains around the community to avoid flooding
- Prepared the boat (cut it to a specific size) that now sits in Sam Choy’s Breakfast, Crab & Lunch restaurant. His work is now the hand-washing basin in the same restaurant.
- 1997 - accompanied Sam Choy to Grand Chefs on Tour at the Kealani Resort, Maui to cook huli huli chicken.
- Cooked his original local beef stew from scratch at Hale’iwa Beach Park for the Once A Month Church for the past 5 years. He did so for the final time at the March29, 2009 church service. While cooking, he delighted to teach others his method so they could carry on without him which they did one week after his death on Sunday, April 26, 2009.
Loving reflections from daughter Manu Anana;
My papa had a habit of getting up in all the wee hours of the night/morning to make himself something to eat. It was mostly scrambled eggs. And so, that is the first thing i ever learned to cook.
- He’d also always offer people something to eat. Incessantly, even if they weren’t hungry, or politely decline, he’d INSIST on them eating or drinking something.
- He’d get ideas from watching TV late at night, wake up early in the morning and try to create it. Which is how he got the idea for the automated huli huli chicken cooker
- He’d also drive around a truck with all his tools on it, somewhat like a mobile carpentry shop. He’ build racks on the truck bed with a roof that could store ALL of his tool necessities.
Loving reflections from daughter Manu Anana;
My papa had a habit of getting up in all the wee hours of the night/morning to make himself something to eat. It was mostly scrambled eggs. And so, that is the first thing i ever learned to cook.
- he’d also always offer people something to eat. Incessantly. Even if they weren’t hungry, or politely decline, he’d INSIST on them eating or drinking something.
- He’d get ideas from watching tv late at night, wake up early in the morning and try to create it. Which is how he got the idea for the automated huli huli chicken cooker
- he’d also drive around a truck with all his tools on it, somewhat like a mobile carpentry shop. He’ build racks on the truck bed with a roof that could store ALL of his tool necessities.
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