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Posted: Tuesday, December 21st, 2004 5:59 AM HST

Resort founder Child dies

By 67AM KPUA News

(Waimea-KPUA.net) -- Walter D. "Dudley" Child Jr., a resort executive whose Inter-Island Resort Corp. fostered the growth of neighbor island tourism as Hawaii grew with statehood, died Sunday at his Kamuela home. He was 73. Although Inter-Island was dissolved in the 1980s, its many hotels remain, such as the four former "Surf" resorts on Kauai and Maui and in Kona and Hilo. Child is survived by wife Mary Lou, five children and several grandchildren. Services are pending. (Copyright 2004 by KPUA.net/New West Broadcasting Corp. All rights reserved.)