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The death of American Samoa Gov. Tauese Pita Sunia en route to Hawai'i Wednesday night is a major loss to Hawai'i's Samoan community and the state at large, friends of the late governor said here yesterday.

Many of the state's estimated 40, residents of Samoan ancestry are expected to honor the popular political, religious and educational leader at a funeral here at 3 p.m.

Sunday at Central Union Church.

Sunia, 61, died Wednesday night aboard Polynesian Airlines Flight PH from Apia while en route to Straub Clinic & Hospital here for treatment of abdominal pains.

Lt. Gov. Togiola Tulafona, named acting governor upon Sunia's death, said the cause of death was unclear, but that it was not the illness for which Sunia was coming to Hawai'i for treatment.

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&#;Tauese is the brave heart of American Samoa, a humble man who loved his people,&#; Togiola said in a tearful announcement on state-run television about 10 p.m. Wednesday.

Sunia is survived by his wife, 10 children and many gra