When Paese Autagavaia was born on 1 March 1902, in Vailoa, Palauli, Savai'i, Samoa, her father, Ta'ape Autagavaia, was 21 and her mother, Tofeliuai Leotatoga Lealamanu'a, was 29. She married Lafaele Autagavaia Saipaia Savaiinaea on 24 December 1925, in Mulivai, Samoa. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 3 July 1996, at the age of 94, and was buried in Samoa.
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New Zealand occupies Western Samoa during World War I and continues to administer it after the war by virtue of a League of Nations mandate (and a United Nations mandate after World War II).
U.S. troops stationed in Western Samoa during World War II, but no battles are fought on the islands.
Western Samoa becomes independent, the first Pacific island nation to do so.
German and Dutch: variant of Haas .
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