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| Penni Ishino |
Penni was 23 years old when President Roosevelt signed Executive Order
9066 after the bombing of Pear Harbor. She was forcibly removed from Kingsburg, California to the Poston,
Arizona concentration camp 1 on July 24, 1942. In March 1943, she attended a Community
Welfare Meeting, held at the Gila River, Arizona concentration camp. In July 1943, she left Poston, Arizona to begin
work as a Reports Officer in Grosse Point, Michigan. Later, she attended the National
Training School in Kansas City, Missouri. She returned to California and worked for the Board of Equalization
Sales Tax Division in California.
Penni moved to Seattle, Washington, where she met Roy Ishino. They were married in
August of 1953. She was a Teacher's Aide at Colman Elementary School, and later
at Lowell Elementary School and retired in 1984. She was a devoted wife
and mother of three boys, Erik, Larry, and Craig. She and Roy shared their love of fishing,
mushroom picking, and camping with their children.
Penni Ishino, 96, died on May 9, 2015, in Seattle, Washington. She was
preceeded in death by her husband, Roy Yoshitomo Ishino; parents, Shokichi
"Joe" and Kotome Kobayashi; sister, Osho (Kobayashi) Morioka of Japan;
and brothers, Lt. Col. Masao Thomas "Tom" Kobayashi, Reverend William
"Bill" Kobayashi, and Joseph “Joe” Kobayashi (Poston block 305).
She is survived by her sons Eric (Ron
Shiley), Larry (Gwen), and Craig; and granddaughter, Tori.
Source: Seattle Times, May 17-24,
2015
