There were no formal speakers, but there was plenty of laughter, hugs, music and food, with a few tears; it was almost like a family reunion of sorts, exactly how Kenoi’s youngest sister Kina Kenoi Sai said her brother would have wanted it.
Pāhoa District Park in Puna on Hawai‘i Island has been renamed William "Billy" Kenoi Park in honor of the former Hawaiʻi County mayor. Kenoi was diagnosed with bone marrow blood cancer in 2015 and died in 2021.