Palapala Ho'omau Church | Charles Lindbergh grave (2024)

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What is written on Lindbergh's grave? ›

Underneath a java plum tree, his grave holds a final set of words to the world: “If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea…” Taken from Psalms 139:9, the epithet can be read as you wish, but we're inclined to think that Lindbergh's was encouraging what he had known since he was a ...

Located in Palapala Ho'omau Church Cemetery on the beautiful island of Maui, Hawaii, the Charles Lindbergh Grave Site is a serene and peaceful place where visitors can pay their respects to this extraordinary aviator.

After being diagnosed with cancer in 1974, he decided to live out his final days on Maui, and even sketched a simple design for his grave and coffin before his death later that year. You can find the grave of both Charles and his wife under the shade of a Java plum tree at the limestone coral church.

Although Lindbergh's grave isn't a grand statue or stately mausoleum, those who want to pay their respects to the famed navigator do find it. Sam Pryor passed away in 1985, and is buried alongside Lindbergh, as is Pryor's wife.

Although the child's health and physical condition at the time of his abduction were downplayed – even hidden from a curious public and law enforcement by Lindbergh and the boy's doctor – he appears to have been afflicted with a rickets-like condition that affected the development of strong bones.

After suffering a series of strokes throughout the 1990s that left her disoriented and disabled, Anne died in 2001 at the age of 94.

On May 12, 1932, the body of the kidnapped baby was accidentally found, partly buried and badly decomposed, about 4.5 miles southeast of the Lindbergh home. The coroner's examination showed that the child had been dead for about two months and that his death was caused by a blow on the head.

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific Oʻahu

Medal of Honor recipients and other notable Hawaiʻi heroes are buried here, including Ellison Onizuka, Hawaiʻi's first astronaut, and Stanley Dunham, World War II veteran and President Barack Obama's grandfather.

So Lindbergh explained that in his airplane his chair was made of wicker and there was a hole in it. And there was a funnel below that hole. And his waste, whenever nature called, would go down through there into sort of an aluminum can.

Why do we still remember Charles Lindbergh? ›

Charles Lindbergh was a famous aviator. In 1927 he became the first man to successfully fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean. He called his airplane the Spirit of St. Louis, and his courageous feat helped make Missouri a leader in the developing world of aviation.

Charles Lindbergh (born February 4, 1902, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.—died August 26, 1974, Maui, Hawaii) was an American aviator, one of the best-known figures in aeronautical history, remembered for the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York City to Paris, on May 20–21, 1927.

Anne met Charles Lindbergh in Mexico City, where her father served as U.S. ambassador to Mexico, during the famous aviator's Latin America tour. They soon began a courtship that included flying lessons, and they married on May 27, 1929.

His death was in 1974. You will not find his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, as she died in Vermont in 2001. She was cremated and her ashes scattered.

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Ten weeks after the kidnapping, on May 12, the body of a toddler was found partially buried in the woods near the Lindbergh home. Charles Lindbergh identified the body as that of his son, who had apparently died the night he was taken.

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Our final stop on the RTH was the church and gravesite of Charles Lindberg which is about 8 miles beyond the town of Hana. The road is paved and the trip is doable; although the paved road ends beyond this point. I thought it was the perfect, peaceful ending to the trip.

After World War II, Lindbergh served as a consultant to the US Air Force and to Pan American World Airways. He continued to travel frequently. In 1957, Lindbergh, then 55, met and fell in love with Brigitte Hesshaimer, a 31-year-old hat maker living in Munich, Germany.