My sister, Pat Kelley, peacefully passed on Sunday afternoon, November 17, 2013 with family members at her side. The following pages give a brief overview of her full and amazing life on earth.

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A MESSAGE FROM RICHARD R. KELLEY TO OUR OUTRIGGER ‘OHANA
November 23, 2013
Remembering Pat Kelley
By Dr. Richard Kelley
Our Outrigger ‘ohana lost a
beautiful family member with
the peaceful passing of my
youngest sister, Patricia “Pat”
Kelley, late Sunday afternoon,
November 17, 2013, in Honolulu
with many family members at
her side. She was 76 years old.
Pat was two years younger
than her sister Jean and four
years younger than I. As often
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happens, the youngest in a
family with several children becomes more outspoken
and active than their older siblings. Pat certainly fit
that pattern. During my life, I watched with interest and
admiration as my baby sister grew from a feisty, quick,
vocal child into a woman of steely courage and strength,
common-sense smarts and independence.
We all grew up in the hotel business in the early days
of post-World War II Waikīkī. Pat was just 10 years old
when Roy and Estelle Kelley opened the five-story, walkup Islander Hotel, located on Seaside Avenue, about one
block mauka (towards the mountains) of the deluxe Royal
Hawaiian Hotel, completed some 20 years earlier.
saying, “Working in the hotels was a family tradition.
We’ve done everything. All of us have cleaned rooms,
scrubbed toilets, worked the front desk and handed out
keys. When Roy acquired the land where some years later
he would build the Outrigger Reef Hotel, he installed an
old-fashioned soda fountain at the beachside end of the
property, under the hau trees. We kids all became ‘soda
jerks.’ Other times, I worked in the reservations office with
my Mama, doing filing … lots of filing.”
Pat at her “card table” tour desk in the Reef Hotel Lobby
Jean, Pat and Rich • California War Years 1942 - 1944
It was a family enterprise and we all worked together.
I have heard Pat describing those early years to others
Pat and daughter Estelle at Pat Kelley Tours
Desk, Reef Hotel Lobby, late 1960s
Pat’s grit, talent
and determination
were key attributes
of her success in the
business world as well
as her survival against
almost overwhelming
odds when facing
major health
challenges later in life.
She never approached
a project or an activity
half-heartedly. Quite
the contrary, she
usually attacked it with
full-bore, pedal-tothe-metal spirit.
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In her 20s, after working for Trade Wind Tours at the
Outrigger Reef Hotel, Pat told our father that she wanted
to start her own business of promoting and selling
optional activities to visitors. She offered to pay $100
monthly rent for the chance to set up her own “desk”
– a folding card table – in one of the hotels. From that
modest start, she built up two successful businesses, Pat
Kelley Tours and Pat Kelley International Travel. Along
the way, she helped many others start and succeed in
their own businesses.
In her 30s, she took up flying small aircraft and became
active in the Ninety-Nines, the national women’s flying
organization. She flew between the islands of Hawai‘i
and in 1972 took part in the challenging transcontinental
women’s air race called the Powder Puff Derby.
Clipping from Powder Puff Derby Brochure, 1972
After observing that people come from all over the
world to get married or renew their vows in Hawai‘i, she
became a licensed minister and developed a business
to provide chapels, transportation, catering and other
arrangements for that segment of Travel & Tourism.
Later in life, she began to focus on quilting. She
joined quilting organizations, set up tables and
equipment in several rooms in her home and developed
a quilting school. Many friends and family members
have wrapped themselves in the “quilts of love” that Pat
created for them.
Pat loved to travel, and rather than just booking
package tours to New York City, London, Paris and other
destinations, she visited all the world’s continents and also
helped many others to travel and expand their horizons.
Pat and daughter Estelle in Antarctica, 2007
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Pat after seeing her first wild African elephant
Pat regularly told people to “Follow Your Rainbow,” and
delighted in creating rainbow experiences for them.
Pat was also the Kelley family historian who has boxes
full of photographs and was the “go to girl” if you wanted to
know who is related to whom – and how – on the family tree.
Pat accomplished all of these things and much more
even though she faced extremely challenging health
issues during the second half of her life. About 30 years
ago, she developed metastatic cancer in her abdomen.
She endured months of debilitating chemotherapy and
radiation therapy. This saved her life, but the side effects
of the treatment stayed with her for the rest of her life.
In mid-life, Pat’s heart began to fail and her physicians
determined that her aortic valve, the important, final
valve her blood passed through on its way out of her
heart, was congenitally deformed. During open-heart
surgery, that valve was replaced with an aortic valve
taken from a pig. Pat outlived that porcine replacement
and some 15 years later had to have another open-heart
procedure to install a second replacement valve.
Pat attended Punahou
School, St. Helens Hall
(Portland, Ore.), Stephens
College (Columbia, Mo.),
and Santa Rosa Junior
College (Santa Rosa, Calif.).
A strong believer in life-long
learning, she supported the
education of many others
and established the Gerald
“Pete” Petrequin Scholarship
at Punahou School,
honoring her husband, who
predeceased her.
High School, mid 50s
Pat will always hold
an honored place in the
Outrigger legacy as a contributing member of the
tight-knit, hard-working family who together laid
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Pat, Estelle, Richard and Jean, 1942
our company’s enduring foundation of focusing on
employees, caring for guests and operating efficiently.
She was a savvy professional who grew successful
businesses, a caring sister, a loving mother and a faithful
friend for ever so many.
She is survived by her siblings, myself and Jean Rolles;
daughters Michelle Norstrom and Estelle M. Kelley;
son-in-law Jason Weber; and grandchildren Michael and
Mackenzie Norstrom. She is also survived by her beloved
pet dog, a Corgi named “King Tut.” Services are pending.
Our family will always remember Pat with deepest
fondness, enduring love and aloha.
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Roy and Estelle with Richard, Jean and Pat, 1939
Pat at the Reef Hotel, late 1950s
Pat, Roy, Richard and Estelle, 1951
Jean and Pat at their brother Richard’s wedding, 1955
Pat and daughter Estelle, Coco Palms, Kaua’i, 1965
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Pat, Roy, Jean, Richard & Estelle, 1990
Richard always had a special place in his heart for his sister Pat
Daughters Michelle and Estelle celebrate Pat’s 50th, 1987
Pat, Richard and Jean at Estelle M. Kelley’s wedding, 2012
Michelle, Pat and Estelle at a family gathering
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Pat and late husband Pete Petrequin
Pat and her beloved King Tut, 2011
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