NISHIKAWA, GEORGE TSUTOMU was born June 8, 1914 and passed away on Dec. 21, 2011. He was 97 years old. Survived by his beloved wife, Agnes Honda; sister, Harumo Lanier of Georgia; 4 children: Philip (Shirley) Nishikawa, Jane (Dr. Robert) Reeves, Dennis Nishikawa, Dr. Richard Nishikawa (Dr. Kathy Miller); cherished grandchildren, Allison (David) Ida, Dr. [...]
OBITUARY: Toshiyuki Hirabayashi
January 5, 2012 By 1 Comment
HIRABAYASHI, TOSHIYUKI passed away peacefully in Burlingame, Calif. at age 96. He was born Feb. 9, 1915, and died Jan. 1. He is survived by Midori, his wife of 66 years; son, Glen (Donna), and their daughters, Ashley and Amy; son, Dean (Debby), and their children, Kristin and Michael; daughter, Joan (Richard Reichard), and their [...]
KEEPING POSTED: Mauch Yamashita, Nisei baseball legend, passes away
January 1, 2012 By 1 Comment
It was the end of a unique, remarkable sporting era for California’s colorful, historic Japanese American baseball world. A sad day, when one of its cherished, most popular diamond assets — Masato “Mauch” Yamashita — suddenly passed away Dec. 7, 2011. Mauch Yamashita, 88, died at Lodi Memorial Hospital, following a heart attack. A native [...]
Lodi Nisei baseball legend ‘Mauch’ Yamashita dies: Local baseball field was named after longtime manager
December 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
LODI, Calif. — Masato “Mauch” Yamashita, a veteran of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team who served as the longtime manager of the Lodi Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) baseball team and had a local baseball field named after him, died on Dec. 7, 2011 from complications following a heart attack, sources said. He was [...]
OBITUARY: Mary Miyeko Tonai
December 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
TONAI, MARY MIYEKO passed away peacefully in her sleep on the morning of November 26, 2011. She was born on Jan. 30, 1918 in Oakland, Calif. and raised in the Los Angeles area with her sisters, Carrie (Fujii) and Helen (Yokoyama). She married Sataro Tonai prior to the outbreak of World War II and during [...]
OBITUARY: Mary Hisako Hamada
December 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
HAMADA, MARY HISAKO, born in Sacramento, Calif. on Sept. 14, 1922, she passed away Nov. 12, 2011 in San Francisco at the age of 89. She is survived by grandsons Jeffrey, William, Jonathan and daughter-in-law Jane Hamada, all of Sunnyvale, brother Pete Kurihara of Gardena, sister Lorraine Suzuki of San Francisco and many nieces and [...]
OBITUARY: Chiyoko Koga
December 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
KOGA, CHIYOKO, 90, of San Francisco passed peacefully in her sleep at Stella’s Care Home on November 22, 2011. She was the daughter of Chitose Moriuchi and leaves behind a daughter, June Canak, and a son, Ken Koga. A ceremony celebrating her life will be scheduled sometime in 2012 with her ashes to be scattered [...]
Benkyodo confectionary matriarch dies
November 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Sue Okamura, the matriarch of the family that has run the Benkyodo confectionary for 105 years, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Oct. 29, 2011. She was 85. Sue Suyeko Kurihara was born on April 1, 1926 in Sacramento, Calif. to parents Yujiro Kurihara and Funari Matsuda, the third child among siblings Mary Hamada, [...]
OBITUARY: Toshiko Iwawaki
November 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
IWAWAKI, TOSHIKO passed away peacefully of natural causes at the age of 97 on November 5, 2011. Born in Seattle on Aug. 20, 1914, lived in San Francisco for 30 years, except for the WWII years spent in the concentration camps of Gila, Ariz. and Tule Lake, Calif. Upon her husband’s retirement, moved to Berkeley in [...]
OBITUARY: Irene Yoshiko Tsutsumi Saiki
November 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
SAIKI, IRENE YOSHIKO TSUTSUMI, 91, passed away on Oct. 18, 2011 in San Franciso, after suffering a stroke. Born on Aug. 22, 1920 on her family’s farm in Pismo Beach, Calif., she was raised there up until WWII, when she was interned at Poston. From there she moved to Washington, DC and soon met and [...]
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