The awards that followed as recognition of her many and varied roles included an Honorary LL.D from Victoria University, New Zealand in 1976 for outstanding services to education in the Pacific as well as outstanding services on behalf of and for women. Her own nation awarded her the Order of Tiafau in 1993 for her role in the development of Women in Samoa and the Pacific. The University of the South Pacific awarded its first Honorary Doctor of Laws to her in 2004." On the day of her death she was scheduled to be bestowed with an Honorary Doctorate by the National University of Samoa.