KALAUPAPA, Hawaii (AP) -- Alice Chang Kamaka, who lived at the state's Hansen's disease settlement at Kalaupapa most of her life, died Monday. She was 94.
Diagnosed with Hansen's disease, or leprosy, as a teen-ager, Kamaka was one of thousands of island residents who were sent to the remote peninsula on the island of Molokai in an effort to curb the spread of the disease.
She had lived at Kalaupapa since 1919, and chose to remain there along with other patients after the quarantine was lifted in the 1960s.
Kamaka arrived at Kalaupapa when Brother Joseph Dutton, who had worked with Father Damien DeVeuster, was still caring for patients on the peninsula.
Father Damien came to Kalaupapa in 1873 at age 33 to minister to leprosy patients, and then died of the disease in 1889. He was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1995.
Kamaka was an extra in the 1998 Belgian movie, ``Molokai: The Story of Father Damien,'' which was filmed at Kalaupapa.
She outlived 12 siblings and was married five times. She bore the name of her fifth husband, who died in the 1950s.
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Thea Porter
LONDON (AP) -- Thea Porter, a fashion designer who brought a taste of the Middle East to the ``hippie chic'' of the 1960s and 1970s, died Monday. She was 72 and had Alzheimer's disease.
Born in Jerusalem to missionary parents, Porter trained as an artist. She opened a shop in London in 1966 selling Oriental carpets and fabrics.
Later she offered clothes as well, and her customers included Princess Margaret, Elizabeth Taylor, Raquel Welch, Joan Collins, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
In the 1970s, she briefly operated stores in New York and Paris.
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Johnny Duncan
Tennessee hillbilly singer who helped pave the way for Britain's rock revolution
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EDDIE PEQUENINO: Excellent trombonista and conductor. It began integrating orchestras of Jazz, with Ricardo Romero, Eduardo Armani and Lalo Schiffrin. Although as singing it left enough that to wish, was the pioneer of the rock & roll in Argentina with its group Mr Roll and its Rockers, recording in 78 rpm the successes of Bill Haley. In 1957 they took part in the film " Comes To dance the Rock ". The following year, when appearing Bill Haley in the Mertropolitan theater of Buenos Aires, acted opening the functions. Later he went turning upside down to the performance and had several problems of health. He passed away the 21 of Julio of 2000.
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