Lorrain Cacelia Burgess

Birth date: Apr 1, 1958 Death date: Oct 15, 2018

Lorrain Cacelia Burgess Obituary With family by her bedside, Lorrain Cacelia Burgess, 60, of Makakilo lost her battle with cancer on October 15, 2018. Lorrain was born at Castle Air Force Base in California to John Edward and Hann Read Obituary

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Josephine Salas

366w ago

LovingOutrageousRemarkableReliableAffectionateInspirationalNoble Lorrain taught me so much over the last 10 years that I knew her. She introduced me to so many 1st, so many reasons to do the right thing, so many reasons. Lorrain loved to eat different food than us so that in itself was another introduction - Indian food ... that was DELICIOUS! It's hard to come by friends like Lorrain in ones lifetime. I am so glad I got to be a part of your life! Love you Lorrain! Love you lots!

Roger Sipe

367w ago

I've spent the past few days trying to figure out what to say about Lorrian and the impact she had on my life. So many words come to mind that it's difficult to put them all down. We worked together for nearly a decade on Hawaii Magazine but "co-workers" would not be very high on the list of descriptions I use to describe our relationship.Â So I'll just say this: Lorrain was the best. She really was! Aloha my friend.Â

Paula Valkos Whealen

368w ago

I met Lorraine in 2nd grade in Atwater and we remained friends for the past 53 years.Â She made sure that we kept in touch - that's how she was with her friends.Â She not just lived life, she devoured it and spread her joy of it to all she knew.Â Lorrain stood up for the principles she believed in, and for the people she loved.Â She taught me a great deal about tolerance, acceptance and forgiveness.Â Those who knew her were better for it.Â I will miss her smile, those piercing beautiful blue eyes, her chatty emails, and our all night talks when she was here to visit.Â Her time here was too short.Â Â

Susanne Hechinger

368w ago

I went to high school with Lorraine and she was as beautiful on the inside as she was on the outside!! She was kind, funny, amazingly charming and was loved by everyone who knew her. She was a blessing in this life and will be greatly missed.

Sissy Napalapalai

368w ago

It was an honor getting to meet and work with you at Hoâ€™omau Ke Ola Lorrainâ¤ï¸ I enjoyed your friendship and wisdom. Fly with angels my friend. Love and blessings to your Ohana. Sissy Napalapalai

Dan Pence

368w ago

I will miss my friend Lorrain. She was special, to me and to many others. I was fortunate to be called her friend, and even though after high school we drifted, her place in my life was secure. Recently reconnecting after many years of very infrequent contact, her emails and adventures have brought laughter, joy and caused me to consider, things I had not considered before. Her passionate telling of story, her interesting and considered Â correspondence, and her passion for all things that captured her interest brought joy to my friendship with Lorrain. Some people you meet and they are only in your life for a moment, they go on and are rarely thought of. For others the time is brief, too brief, but the impact and mark they leave on you is deep and strong. Lorrain, and my friendship with her and her family has left such a mark. She is gone too soon, but I will never forget her.Â Â

Dana Washofsky

369w ago

Dana Washofsky is with Kay Hampton and 10 others.October 15 at 11:02 PMÂ My friend Lorrain Burgess died today. She and I met 40 years ago at our first job in Hawaii, Margo Wood Advertising. She lived in Makaha then ... and made her home on the West Side forever more. She loved helping people. Whether it was in their ad plans or their lives --She thrived on knowing the whole story and would drill down deep to get the details. She made friends quickly and kept them in her life even longer. She loved family....was raised in a 3-generation home and embraced her German heritage. And was passionate about her nieces and nephew as well as the children of her close friends. She tracked my kids and g'kids and always wanted to know what they were up to. So many of us all got our start "back in the day"...she rep'd Hawaii Magazine for many years -- Then when they closed their office in Hawaii - she went to school and became a CSAP--- Certified Substance Abuse Professional. She really wanted to help the folks she worked with to find their center and move forward to have better control of their lives. She was a common sense kinda gal...everything she did was thought out and well reasoned. She was a foodie!!! We loved our "catch-up" lunches at the newest restaurants and never left without trying the desserts. When she became a Vegan several years ago, that didn't stop her from finding the Vegan restaurants all over Oahu and wherever she traveled.....she embraced a naturalist lifestyle as well with some coaching from her sister became a very good and creative Vegan cook. She was an adventuresome traveler...on her last trip she came to see me in San Rafael, CA -- (she had already scoped out the vegan restaurants right near me). She always took the road less traveled -- to see something she read about, or meet up with old friends or to just go somewhere she hadn't been before. In 2006 we went to the Tamale Festival in Palm Springs because while she had been in California many times during the festival she was always working ... this was when we were both "between" jobs and so we went to Joshua Tree, the Shields Date Farm and the Festival. It was a great weekend together -- I'll never forget it!She was always there for me. She came to my house the night we brought Baby Ben home from the hospital, she picked up all the lei for Ben's Bar Mitvah, came to Jakes HS graduation, sat with me after shoulder surgery as Craig had to be somewhere, came to Kailua to check up on our house renovations and many many more occasaions that we shared.I will miss knowing that she is there, in Makakilo, doing her yoga and meditation, and our chats and texts. I will miss her deeply.

Lindsay Lorrain

369w ago

Dear Auntie, Iâ€™m writing this to you to let you know just what an amazing person you are and how truly loved and missed you will be. And most especially, how REMEMBERED. Even now, as I try to find the words to tell you just how much you mean to me and all our family, I am flooded with memories. Every Christmas, every birthday, all the countless emails and phone calls over the years. You were always there to celebrate every holiday, every important day of our lives. You watched us grow up and shared in our joys and triumphs through the years, from childhood to adulthood. You took us on adventures and helped teach us about the world. You had a great influence on me and my love for art and culture, something I will be forever thankful for. You were an avid music lover and movie buff and I inherited both of these passions. I remember you introducing me to art films in San Francisco when I was only 12 years old, and taking me to blues concerts and the Seattle Jazz Festival when I was 16. You loved the Bay Area and would often bring us on adventures in the city. I remember you taking us to downtown Berkeley during the holidays every year and taking long walks down the pier at night. You loved movies and television and at least once a week I would get a new movie review/suggestion from you. You would ask for me to go see whichever film it was and report back to you with my own review. This was something we shared as far back as I can remember. I will miss these movie chats, especially when Oscar season comes around. As you said yourself, you lived life your way and on your terms and I admire and respect you for that. You also lived it in a big way and I know we are all inspired by your boundless warmth and energy, your independence, your love of travel and sense of adventure, and most of all, your loving and generous spirit. Iâ€™m so happy and honored Mom named me after you. I will always bear it proudly :). You gave us so many gifts over the years, but my favorite will always be the memories. So many incredible memories. Thank you so much for that. And for being such a special part of our lives. If thereâ€™s one thing you taught me, it was to document everything and to pass these memories on. From detailed travel journals, to countless letters and emails, to the meaningful messages you wrote in the books you gave Alina, just as you did for us kids when we were growing up. All these are beloved souvenirs you left behind and they will be lovingly passed on. Iâ€™m so happy and grateful Alina got to meet her amazing Grand-Auntie and I canâ€™t wait to share all the stories and fun memories I have with her. I know her Oma, Grandma Peggy, Grandpa Steve, Uncle Solo, Aunt Hana, Uncle Spencer, Aunt Bailey and Uncle Brian will share their own stories as well. She will always know who you are and we will always remember the incredible person we called Auntie. I know how important emails were to you and I know you are reading this from Heaven right now. I will miss reading all your messages and hearing your voice on the phone. But I will remember all the visits, all the trips, all the conversations and all the moments, and I will cherish them always. Love you forever and always, Your Niece Lindsay Lorrain â¤ï¸

Lindsay Lorrain

369w ago

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