Born on June 7, 1918, my dad went up to Heaven on___________ The problem of dying so old is that there are no contemporaries left. The last of his classmate from elementary school dropped dead last year, but by then dad had forgotten most of them. Dementia is a bitch, ain't it.
Dad is the oldest of two, his sister Mary is 5 years younger. Both parents are from Japan. Dad was only 29 when his own father passed away from cancer. Growing up near Little Tokyo, he went to Maryknoll Elementary School at the edge of downtown Los Angeles. According to Mary, dad was a sickly child and did not participate in any strenuous sports, but he was a good swimmer.
Tokujiro (Tom) Yamasaki and Taneye (Anna) Miyamoto (maiden name). She remarried to
Ichisuke Kakishita about 5 years after dad died.
2. Born: 10/18/1888 Died: 11/28/1947 Cancer of the cardiac end of the stomach
Born: 1/1/1898 Died: 4/9/70 Tumor in the heart
3. George education: Maryknoll elementary, Lincoln H.S., UCLA
4. Sports: He was sickly as a child and couldn't participate in any strenuous contact sports Was on the swimming team in a Japanese League
5. Was drafted about 1943 or 44.
6. Living on 6th and Crocker, L.A. before going to Rohwer Camp in Arkansas
7. Incarcerated at Santa Anita Assembly Center in the horse stables in early 1942 for a few months, then moved to permanent quarters in Arkansas until 1944. Our dad was picked up by the FBI on the day of December 7, 1941, as all community, business leaders, teachers, etc. The FBI didn't tell us where he was taken until around Xmas time, to Missoula, Montana. He was later cleared of any wrongdoing and joined us in Santa Anita.
9. George met Fumi in Los Angeles and married around 1953. After he was married (in Las Vegas)
he lived upstairs from us in one of the 4-unit flats my mother owned. Roger was about 4 years old when he told people that "Uncle was living upstairs with a woman".
10. He worked in a carbon paper manufacturing in Chicago until he was drafted and after the war worked for Capital Records and the paint company as a paint chemist. (Might have had other jobs but I don't recall. Don't remember the names, either)
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