One of three Lompocans to serve in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team will be with us on the 16th in Glendale, it was announced yesterday.
Chitose Kitaguchi, 87, who with his brother Akio and Ken Sakanashi were Lompoc's contribution to the 442nd, is making plans to attend. "I'll take him myself," said his son Rich, who called for more information. The 442nd was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal this week.
It was also learned that Kiyo Iwamoto Nakamura and Yosh Nakayama will be coming all the way from Utah to Glendale. Also Jean Nakashima Tekawa and May Murakami Musenga are planning to attend. Also George Fukawa and his sister Chieko Fukawa Iida. Also Judy Kikuno Nakatani.
We already knew about Hank Iwamoto and Michiko Hozaki Mori and Janet Kawahata Saisho. That makes a total of eleven former Lompocans planning to attend this event. We only had six on October 2 in Lompoc and that was a blast! George Yoshitake made sushi. We just learned that Patti Fukawa Nishimura is going to bring Famous Gardena sushi! If Lompoc was a blast maybe Glendale will be a BIGGER blast!
Here's a cute story that surfaced today at the Lompoc Valley Historical Society. It concerns how Katie Inouye Kayser came to have an English instead of Japanese first name. It comes from Katharyn Donnelly of South Carolina. She says that when Koto Inouye was in the "convalescent home" in Lompoc with her newborn daughter she told Dr. Jones that she would like her daughter to have an English name.The doctor replied, "I just delivered a Katharyn." So Koto gave her infant daughter the exact same name. Katharyn. (Kay) Hennessy Donnelly now lives in South Carolina.
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