Marie Toyo Umeda ( Poston 19-14-A) was born 7/20/1917 in San Francisco, California and lost her father when she was a young child. She was raised in the Salinas Valley by her stepfather, Manjiro Kondo and her mother, Misao, with her younger brother, Mitsuo Umeda. Marie lived with her step-brothers, Masuo and Shikatsu Kondo, and step-sisters, Mariko and Makiko Kondo.
Marie Umeda married a Hawaiian, Noboru Kawasaki, and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, they were evacuated from their home in Salinas with their young children, James Takemitsu, and Dennis to the Salinas Assembly Center. They were later transported to more permanent living quarters in the desert at the Poston, Arizona internment camp block 19-14-A on July 2, 1942. Ronald Katsuyoshi Kawasaki was born in 1943 at Poston. The Kawasaki family departed from Poston on October 18, 1945 and went to Morgan Hill, California.
Her husband, Noboru Kawasaki died on October 31, 1967. Marie (Umeda) Kawasaki remarried in 1975, to Eiichi E. Sakauye, until his death in Stanford on November 30, 2005 at the age of 93 years. Marie was a resident of San Jose, and died on December 23, 2010. She is preceded in death by her husbands, Noboru Kawasaki (1967) and Eiichi E. Sakauye (2005); and 5 siblings.
She is survived by sons, James (Jan), Dennis (Cindy), Ronald (Jennifer) and Wayne (Linda) Kawasaki; step-daughters, Carolyn (Ernest Kazato) Sakauye and Jane (Donald) May; Mitsuo Kondo, Makiko "Mike" Ikemura and Sally Okano.
Source: Published in San Jose Mercury News/San Mateo County Times on December 29, 2010
