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| Dr. Masao Yoshimine |
Masao Yoshimine was born on October 19, 1922 in San Diego, California to Kakuo and Shinobu Yoshimine. He graduated from Point Loma High School in 1940. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor while his family was preparing for the forced evacuation, Masao turned in the family car to the Dodge automobile dealer, which was about two or three blocks from the Santa Fe Station in San Diego. He walked back to the train station and the family was evacuated from Ocean Beach to the Santa Anita Assembly Center. In late August, 1942, the family was relocated to the Poston internment camp 3 block 322-2-A in Arizona for three years. While at Poston camp III, his father, who had driven a produce route in San Diego, worked as the Director of Food and eventually became Camp Director. Masao and his younger brother, Carl, both with some college education, became teachers of the camp’s younger students.
After Masao's release from Poston, he volunteered for the Counter-Intelligence Corps and served with the U.S. Army in Japan.
In 1951, he married Yuri Morikawa, at the University of Chicago Chapel. They moved to Michigan where he received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Michigan. He was employed for over 30 years with the Dow Chemical Company as an organic research chemist and had 21 patents recorded. He was a member of the American Chemist Society since 1949.
Dr. Masao Yoshimine, 82, of Midland, died on April 9, 200 following a long illness.
He was survived by his wife, Yuri; two daughters, Joanne Yoshimine-Griess of Taos, New Mexico, and Carol Yoshimine of Hackettstown, New Jersey, and his brother, Rev. Carl Yoshimine of Southern California. Source: http://www.waresmithwoolever.com/obituary.vml?o_id=217&chapel=
