Harry Tameo Miyamoto was born in San Luis Obispo on June 8, 1920 and moved to Japan with his parents. In 1936, when he was fifteen, he traveled along from Kumamoto-ken, Japan to San Luis Obispo, California as a student. Harry found work on various farms from Sacramento to Imperial Valley.
In 1940, Harry married Michi Mary Fujimoto, and the following year, Junko Margaret was born. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, his family was evacuated from Orange County to the Santa Anita Assembly Center and then relocated to the Poston, Arizona internment camp block 5-12-D on May 15, 1942. While in camp, two children were born, Michiko Harriet followed by Hiroshi Kenneth in 1944. Harry went outside of Poston on May 27, 1944 to work in the Denver area. His family finally left Poston on October 2, 1945 and resettled in Glendale, Arizona for six years, then moved to Oxnard, California in 1951. Harry became a cooperative strawberry farmer and continued in the farming industry until his retirement in early 1980s. Harry passed away on March 10, 2004 in Oxnard.
He is survived by his wife Michi; daughters, Margaret (James) Hosaki, Harriet (Robert) Hiji, Sue (Gary) Nakamura, Fumi (Steve) Nishimori, and Joyce (David) Schoonmaker; and sons, Ken (Karen) Miyamoto, Paul (Sharon) Miyamoto, John (Joan) Miyamoto, Alan (Heloisa) Miyamoto; and brother, Roy Miyamoto; and sisters, Satsuki Nishi, Nobuko Shigenaga, Hisato Akazaki, Yoshiko Yoshida.
Published in the Los Angeles Times on March 13, 2004
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