David Seishiro Takeda was born on May 1, 1937 in Chula Vista, California to Keiji & Toyono Takeda. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor during World War II, he and his family were evacuated to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, then relocated to the Poston internment camp (block 329-2-C) , located in Arizona. He left Poston on 9/7/1945 and went to Fresno, California. He had been a former resident of Orosi, and passed away on November 25, 2009 in Monterey Park.
He is survived by his wife Emiko; brother, Joe (Ruby) Takeda; sisters, Chizuko (Takeda) Kubo, Sumiko (Takeda) Okuma, and Judy (Kenneth) Loy; sisters-in-law, May Takeda and Aiko (Tashiro)Takeda.
