‘They literally took a chain saw to it’: Wooden tikis destroyed at Utah cemetery honoring LDS-Hawaiian ancestors

The vandalism happened at the small cemetery in Iosepa, the town where Latter-day Saint Hawaiians who came to Utah were once pushed to settle.

(Ruth Haws Pauni) Vermine "Tutu" Haws, wife of the late Paul Haws, plays the ukulele at his gravesite in April 2025 in Iosepa.

(Ruth Haws Pauni) Vermine "Tutu" Haws, wife of the late Paul Haws, plays the ukulele at his gravesite in April 2025 in Iosepa.

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