Laverne Isabelo Obituary

La Verne is one of a kind. I'm blessed to have known her & to call her my true friend. Rest in peace with our Heavenly Father. I love you so very much, my true friend.

'Auwe. My very deep and sincere condolences to the Isabelo 'ohana - husband Rudy, son Gregg and grandson Aiden. She joins her other son Jon (pre-deceased) in Heaven.
I first met La Verne when, as the Manager at Kahala Travel, hired me as a Travel Coordinator. She was very welcoming and trained me, patiently, in the retail travel industry. (I later found out that she knew my father, who was the Fire Chief of Honolulu at the time. It so happened that the HFD was a regular business client of Kahala Travel.) She would arrange free/all expenses paid industry-sponsored trips for the staff, particularly to San Francisco at least twice a year. My favorite time was during December for Christmas shopping and to go to the City's famous Flower Market. She knew how to shop! She knew how to enjoy traveling. That's when I fell in love with the "City by the Bay" and that's where I live now.
After several years working there, I accepted another position with a larger corporate company.
We remained in touch with each other and became good friends, even after I moved to California. She even included me on one of her family's trip to Disneyland.
As a lovely, interesting and fun person, I enjoyed watching her dance hula, as well as being involved with arts and crafts - especially making beautiful lei made with colorful beads and seeds. She gifted me with one of those special leis, gave me a Hawaiian quilt she had sewed and would always bring back a souvenir shirt for me from the Merrie Monarch Festival every year she attended.
Her unique, one-of-a-kind and "kolohe" sense of humor entertained me for hours and hours. Her sense of fashion was impeccable - dressed "to the nines" with beautifully styled hair. (She told me she worked as a hair designer prior to becoming a travel agent.)
I will remember the many, many good times we shared together over the past decades.

Me Ke Aloha Pumehana,
Scotta