Herman Hung Kee Lam

09/20/1936 – 05/13/2020

Husband, Father, Grandfather, Friend

Always with a “CAN DO”, “NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE”, “NEVER GIVE UP” ATTITUDE is what

best describe Herman, a survivor. Born in ChaoZhou, QuangDong Province of China; youngest

of a family of 13 older siblings. At the age of 14, Herman was arrested by the communists for

being a son of a village governor and landlord. In order to save his young life, Herman had no

other option but to make a harrowing escape from the communist. His escape had led him to

ShangHai and later, settled in Hong Kong as a 14 year old adult. He scrambled to take work

where ever and who ever would hire him to make a living in a strange land. Not more than a

year after his escape, his mom & dad had passed away.

In his late teens, Herman landed a contract to do piece work for a knitting factory in Hong Kong,

soliciting housewives and their daughters to knit mittens. Sadie, Herman’s wife, was one of the

daughters of the knitting housewives. This eventually enabled Herman to start his own knitting

factory for sweaters, where he had over 50 employees to work on his 50 plus knitting machines.

In 1973, Herman and Sadie made the decision to immigrate their family of 7 to Honolulu,

Hawaii. The Lam family have been fortunate to work for the Kelley Family of Outrigger Hotels.

Herman started his career as a parking attendant and with a can do, nothing is impossible

attitude, Herman worked his way up to becoming one the first Asian managers for Outrigger

Hotels, until his retirement in 2003. During his tenure as a parking manager, Herman helped out

many of immigrants with job opportunities to start their own new chapters.

Herman gave it his best to kick to his 30 plus years of Diabetes with his “Never Give Up”

attitude, his belief he would live as long as God will allow him to be on this earth. Herman

valued hard work, dignity, respect, and God. He had many things to be proud of and his home

was one of his trophies of success. Herman passed peacefully to meet with his Father in

Heaven on May 13, 2020 at his home with his wife beside him. Herman leaves behind a

hardworking & loving wife, Sadie. His First born, James & his wife, May. First daughter, Elaine

with her husband, Stuart Blomgren. His middle child, Cindy & her husband, Joseph O’Leary.

Judy is his 4 th child with her husband, Leonard Dempsey. His youngest son, John and his wife

Lam Lam. Herman was a very proud grandfather to Sean & Chloe O’Leary, Michael & Paul

Dempsey, and Mathias H.K. Lam.

Service: Thursday, June 25, 2020

9:30 AM visitation, 10:30 AM service

Burial – Hawaiian Memorial Park at 2:00 PM