Kapua Heuer
Year Inducted: 1999
Wall Ranch | Hawai'i
Mahealani Ranch | Hawai'i
Kapua Heuer is descended from an old kamaaina ranching family, the Walls of Kona. Wall Ranch and Mahealani Ranch are still family-run. She is of a time when ranches had meat houses, butter houses, saddle houses and mauka camps. Her childhood kitchen was often shared with orphan livestock near the woodstove. She is believed to be the only wahine to swim cattle out the boats in Kona at shipping time. In addition to being a ranch hand and mother to two daughters, she became an active 4-H leader, livestock judge and pa’u rider. A relative of another famous Paniolo, Ikua Purdy, Kapua claimed to be 85 years old several years ago.