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| Yoshiko Nagamatsu |
Yoshiko "Yo" Nagamatsu was born in Japan on August 25, 1920, and was adopted when she was 4 years old by Ikugoro and Shimayo Nagamatsu. She attended Paradise School, an integrated elementary school in Las Vegas, Nevada, and frequently played with her Tomiyasu cousins, Maymi, Uwami, Kiyo, and Nanyu at her Uncle Yonema "Bill" and Aunt Toyono Tomiyasu's family farm in Las Vegas, which was located at Paradise and Warm Springs Road. Her Aunt Toyono was her adopted mother's sister.
Yoshiko graduated from the Las Vegas High School in 1936, and the attended the University of Redlands in Southern California.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Yoshiko was a student living in Redlands. She was directly evacuated to the Poston, Arizona internment camp I in the spring of 1942, where she worked as a nurse, according to the internment camp newspaper, or nurse's aide for the Poston camp hospital located at camp I. Since Yoshiko was separated from her family at the time of the evacuation, she left Poston on September 14, 1942 and joined her mother living in Nevada.
Yoshiko graduated from the University of Redlands, and at the age of 30, she traveled and toured the country of France. After the trip, she returned to Redlands, going through the port in Vermont from the T.S.S. Canberra.
In 1951, Yoshiko moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan and worked for the University of Michigan. She was a patron of the University Musical Society University of Michigan. In 1987, she retired as the Deputy Assistant to the Dean of The University Library. She lived at the Glacier Hills Retirement Community in Ann Arbor and died on September 11, 2011.
Sources:
http://obits.mlive.com/obituaries/annarbor/obituary.aspx?n=yoshiko-nagamatsu-yo&pid=153720490
http://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/databases/index.php?coll=photocoll&recid=305
http://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/photographs/0294_Tomiyasu.html
The Press Bulletin, published at Poston, Ariz. September 16, 1942.
