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Malia Damon Obituary
January 11, 1972 - April 6, 2017
Santa Cruz
Malia was born 1/11/72 at Sunset Beach Oahu daughter of Jon Damon and Mary Barter and grew up in Santa Cruz. As a fashion model Malia traveled to Japan, Paris, Milan and New York. She graduated from UCLA with a degree in English and Creative writing, and worked for Artists and Writers Agency and later for Lightstorm Entertainment. She moved back to Hawaii in 2001 and was a top producer at Paradise Realty on Oahu's North Shore. A passionate environmentalist, surfer, horsewoman, dancer, photographer, and lover of animals, she will be remembered for her kindness, wit and humor and loyal friendship. She is survived by her parents, step-parents Susan Damon and David Barter, sisters Elena Copus (Kurt), Kathryn Damon, Evelyn Damon and her brother Ben Damon, as well as her nieces Sydney and Eleanor Copus, extended family and the friends she loved so much.
Services will be held at Last Chance Ranch on June 3 at 3:00pm.
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The Deitchs
April 10, 2023
... and so do we, Eleanor!
Eleanor Copus
April 8, 2023
I remember when my mom took me and my sister to visit Malia a hile before she died. And I r ember when me and Sydney both went into her room and hugged for a few minutes. Looking back I would do anything to go back and never leave her arms, I remember the way she dressed to the way she smelled. I miss her everyday, I wish she were here to hug me one more time.
-elie
December 7, 2017
Malia was my best friend since we were kids. There is no greater loss. You have no idea who just left this world. She would think it's ridiculous that she died. It's not a huge loss. it's the hugest loss. There isn't another person like this. There won't be. But I got to have her as my best friend. I wish that for all of you. to have someone even close to this in your life one day. You will know the joy of having a best friend who fights for all you are and to make you see it.
The Deitchs
May 23, 2017
Tanto fresco ... Por dios ...
Now she belongs to the angels ...
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength, and I stand and watch until at last she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says, 'There she goes!'
Gone where? Gone from my sight ... that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, 'There she goes!' there are other eyes watching her coming and their voices ready to take up the glad shouts 'Here she comes!'
-Henry Van Dyke, A Parable of Immortality
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May 22, 2017
Sorrow makes us all children again- destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
KELLEY
May 21, 2017
MAY THE THOUGHT OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS SHARING IN YOUR GRIEF BRING YOU A MEASURE OF COMFORT.PLEASE READ PROV.17:17
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