Where did you get the information regarding what date the obituary was in? If you got it from Ancestry.com it could well be disinformation. I’ve run into a lot of disinformation there.
http://ipac2.librarieshawaii.org:81/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12844EW25309R.2615964&source=~!comres_train&profile=main&page=3&group=0&term=dunham&index=.NK&uindex=&aspect=basic_search&menu=search&ri=1&ts=1284416276546&deduping=#focus
Hawaii Newspaper Portal from Hawaii State Library