Sugar plantation manager Lindsay A. Faye Sr.

Kekaha Sugar Co. manager Lindsay A. Faye Sr. (1898-1979) was born in Mana, Kauai, one of five sons and three daughters of pioneer Kauai sugar planter H. P. Faye and Margaret Lindsay Faye.

He was educated at Choate, graduating in 1917 during World War I, but rather than immediately moving on to Yale, as he’d planned, he chose instead to enlist in the U.S. Army, serving with the Field Artillery in France as a second lieutenant.

With the Army behind him, he entered Yale, earned his degree in 1921, and returned home to start off in the sugar business as a section boss at Kekaha Sugar Co., then managed by his father.

The following year, he became manager of Waimea Sugar Co. — his father’s solely owned sugar plantation — and managed there until 1928, when his father died and he took over the assistant manager’s job at Kekaha Sugar Co. under William Danford.

Seven years later, he was promoted to manager of Kekaha Sugar Co. and remained at that post until his retirement in 1963 — overseeing major changes over the years, including the mechanization of field operations and the unionization of non-supervisory employees.

Under his leadership, Kekaha Sugar Co. fostered many delightful community events, such as 4th of July and Christmas celebrations, and numerous competitive sporting activities.

Plantation resources were used to build the Kekaha and Mana public swimming pools, and he was instrumental in promoting the construction of the Kikiaola Small Boat Harbor.

Most notable was his fight against the Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall’s recommendation, in 1960 to create a national park out of about one-fourth of Kauai’s land area.

Leilani Scott Faye was his first wife. They had four children: Mary, Anna, Linda and Lindsay “Tony” Faye Jr., who, like his father and grandfather before him, also managed Kekaha Sugar Co.

Lindsay Faye’s second wife was Roberta Irvine Faye.