San Joaquin-Fresno-San Francisco County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Hirasuna, Eddie  December 5 2004
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Lodi News  December 8, 2004
Eddie Hirasuna
Eddie Noboru Hirasuna, 98, of Lodi, died Dec. 5 at his home. He was born July 
30, 1906, in Ewa, Oahu, Hawaii.

Mr. Hirasuna attended schools in Fresno, and later moved to Acampo where he 
married Kiyoko Sasaki. He was in an Internment Camp with his wife in Rower, 
Ark. in 1942. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the 442nd Inf. 
Reg. He and his wife returned to Acampo in 1945 where he became a Field Foreman 
for a grape Rancher in Acampo. In 1949, they moved to a small farm east of Lodi 
where he was a vegetable farmer and later a gardener. He was a member of the 
Lodi Buddhist Church, and a former member of the Gardener's Club. He enjoyed 
reading, history, carpentry, traveling, watching old movies, growing 
vegetables, fruits and flowers.

He is survived by his son, Lester Hirasuna, Fresno; daughters, Patsy Oda, of 
Lodi, Delphine Hirasuna and Diane Hirasuna, both of San Francisco; sisters, Sue 
Tsudama, of Fresno, Alyce Sasaki, of Lodi, and Chiyoko Kawashiri, of Fairfield; 
and brother, Jim Hirasuna, of Fresno.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Kiyoko Hirasuna in 2000; and brother, 
Takashi Minazumi, of Santa Monica.

A private funeral will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Evergreen Chapel at 
Cherokee Memorial Park with the Rev. Kenshin Fujimoto of the Lodi Buddhist 
Church officiating. Inurnment will be private in the Chapel of the Flowers.

A Family Remembrance Memorial Registry may be signed from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 
today, and from 9 a.m. to noon on Thursday at the Cherokee Memorial Funeral 
Home, 831 Industrial Way, near Beckman Road in Lodi

Cherokee Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.



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