How Beth Chapman's Family Honored Her Final Wishes During Hawaii Memorial

Duane "Dog" Chapman honored his late wife Beth Chapman with a special Hawaiian send-off.

According to TMZ, Dog and his children bid the matriarch aloha by spreading her ashes and flowers across Hawaii's Waikiki waters during a paddle-out ceremony. The outlet reports that, amid the event, the Chapman family snuck off on a private boat and headed out at sea, where they spread some of the ashes, per Beth's final wishes, and preserved the rest, possibly for another ceremony in the family's native Colorado.

Dog held the close-knit memorial service on Saturday (June 29) at Fort DeRussy Beach Park, located near the Hawaiian capital of Honolulu, to commemorate the love of his life, who tragically died last week of Stage 2 throat cancer at age 51. Dog spoke in front of dozens of mourning family and friends who came to pay their respects to the departed Dog the Bounty Hunter star in Hawaii, a place Beth called home for many years.

"She said, 'Please Hawaiian style… please do this right,'" Dog recalled to the crowd. "She loved Hawaii and she loved people. The people mostly she loved."

Beth died on June 26, two days after a medical emergency prompted her to be placed in a medically-induced coma.

She had been diagnosed with throat cancer since September 2017. Despite undergoing a successful surgery for her condition that same year, the disease returned and called for a tumor to be removed from her throat in November 2018. Her condition worsened when she was hospitalized for an "accumulation of fluid in her lungs" this April.

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