Emily Butler Kapua, age 98 ½, of Louisville peacefully passed away at her residence on April 21,2023.

The family will receive friends on April 28 from 1:00 pm-2:00 pm at Keahey Funeral Home Clio. Services will follow at 2:00 pm with the Reverend Kenneth Earls officiating. Interment will follow in the Pea River Presbyterian Cemetery. The church and cemetery are located at 2950 Louisville Street, Clio, AL 36017.

Mrs. Kapua was born in New York on October 2, 1924, and spent her life as a wife, mother, teacher, and educator. It was early in her life, when she was eight years old, that she attended a Vacation Bible School at a Methodist Church for one week. This one week made a lasting impression on her with one song, “This is my Father’s World.” After being raised in a Catholic home, this song, and “In the Garden” spoke to her soul as did many others in her lifetime, so much so that she left a handwritten note for her family with her last request that these two songs be sung at her funeral. A true lover of nature, these songs and her lessons of life will be her legacy for future generations.

Left to remember Mrs. Kapua are her loving husband since November 20,1948, Homer Kapua, Jr. of Louisville, AL, her son, David T. (Gwendolyn) Kapua of Louisville, two grandchildren, Richard Kapua and Amber (Ray) Perez, and three great grandchildren, Coral Gomez, Ray Perez, and Sumer Perez.

Mrs. Kapua was preceded in death by her son in 2022, Ronald Kapua, and her parents, Albert and Tessie (Cross) Butler. Keahey Funeral Home in Clio is honored to be entrusted with these arrangements.