Anona napoleon biography movie

It's a marriage made in heaven because, to the Napoleons, heaven is being in the ocean.

Canoe paddling, surfing, bodyboarding, canoe sailing, paddleboarding, kayaking ... the water has always been home to Joseph "Nappy" and Anona Napoleon.

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They raised their five sons on the beach and have watched their 11 grandchildren play in the sand and the water.

"All the credit goes to my wife," Nappy Napoleon said of his partner of 36 years. "To me, the wife is the one who makes the family and I guess I was lucky.

"The happiest time of my life was when the boys were growing up and we did water sports together.

Surfing, paddling ... that's what we did as a family."

The close-knit ohana has floated away a little bit as the boys got older and made lives of their own.

Joey, 35, is a journeyman in ceramic tile on the Big Island. The other brothers live on Oahu: Aaron and Darryn, 34-year-old twins, are electricians; David "Kawika," 31, is the coordinator for the Hawaiian Language departmen Anona Napoleon | Movies and Filmography | AllMovie GUCI