• Loraine Newalli Loraine Newalli Loraine Newalli was born in 1915 and died on April 3, 2014 at the age of 98 at Garden Isle Health Care. She had lived on Kauai for about the last ten years. She was
• Loraine Newalli
Loraine Newalli
Loraine Newalli was born in 1915 and died on April 3, 2014 at the age of 98 at Garden Isle Health Care. She had lived on Kauai for about the last ten years. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and remembered the days of living in a Norwegian neighborhood, before the streets were paved. She attended Hunter College for a year before going to work at Harcourt, Brace Publishers. She married Arthur Newall in 1942 and lived on Long Island for the first part of her life. She was an unusual woman who in the 1950’s started her own printing and mailing business. This was the time of stay at home moms, but she disliked housework and said she worked so someone else could do that for her. With three children in elementary school she did all the “mom” things in addition to her business. All three children remember stuffing envelopes in front of the television for mailing out the next day. Loraine eventually bought her own printing press and ran it by herself. The bane of her existence at this time was that she could never get the printers ink out from under her fingernails.
After the death of her beloved, Arthur, she and her youngest daughter, Holly, and her granddaughter, embarked on a road trip to make a home in the Portland area, where she started a new career as a travel agent. She spent the next thirty years there, before coming to Kauai. She really travelled the world and instilled this wanderlust in her three children.
She is survived by her three children: Leslie Newall of Kapaa, William Newall (Veronica) of Kekaha, and Holly Newall Santor (Kenneth) of Portland, Oregon. There are 7 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren, and 2 great, great grandchildren. She is remembered by her family as a very strong, independent woman with opinions that reflected those qualities. Loraine’s family is mourning her privately and they request that any gifts be donations to Kauai Hospice. The family is grateful to the wonderful care Loraine received while at Garden Isle Health Care.
