Fan memories: Star showed warm and playful side

By Star-Advertiser staff

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jan 13, 2013

~~<p>Ahulani Von Hamm recalls the time in the 1960s when Elvis Presley and his wife, Priscilla, along with Colonel Tom Parker, rented the beachfront Kahala mansion next door. Although her family was protective of the singer's privacy, Von Hamm went over one day to introduce herself and to ask a favor. She was going to send a disabled teenage girl who spent a lot of time with Von Hamm's family over to Presley's house to ask for some eggs. Von Hamm wasn't going to tell the girl, who adored the singer, who their neighbor was, and she wondered if Presley would play along.</p>
<p>His response: "I love it."</p>
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Ahulani Von Hamm recalls the time in the 1960s when Elvis Presley and his wife, Priscilla, along with Colonel Tom Parker, rented the beachfront Kahala mansion next door. Although her family was protective of the singer's privacy, Von Hamm went over one day to introduce herself and to ask a favor. She was going to send a disabled teenage girl who spent a lot of time with Von Hamm's family over to Presley's house to ask for some eggs. Von Hamm wasn't going to tell the girl, who adored the singer, who their neighbor was, and she wondered if Presley would play along.