San Joaquin-Los Angeles County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Okuhara, Keizo  February 16, 2005
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Lodi News  Feb 17, 2005 
Keizo Okuhara 
Keizo Okuhara, 87, of Acampo, died Feb. 16 in a local hospital following a 
sudden illness. He was born Nov. 25, 1917, in Manteca.

Mr. Okuhara was raised on the family farm in Acampo. He attended Houston 
Elementary School, and graduated from Lodi Union High School in 1936. He was 
placed in the relocation camp in Gila River, Ariz. during World War II. In the 
later part of World War II, he served in the U.S. Army engineer corp., until 
his honorable discharge. He married Mitsuko Yoshiwara in 1952, and they made 
their home in Acampo, where he farmed. Later, he owned and operated Cactus 
Nursery until his retirement in Dec. 2003. 

He is survived by his wife, Mitsuko Okuhara, of Acampo; daughters, Mary Lyn 
Yip, of Seal Beach, Susan Siefried, of Lodi, Carol Okuhara and Mimi Okuhara, 
both of Sherman Oaks; sisters, Bessie Okuhara, of Lodi, and Hiroko Takata, of 
Japan; and four grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Lodi Buddhist Church, 
23 N. Stockton St., Lodi, with the Rev. Kenshin Fujimoto officiating. Inurnment 
will be private at Cherokee Memorial Park. There will be no visitation.

A Family Memorial Registry may be signed today and Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 
at Cherokee Memorial Funeral Home, 831 Industrial Way, near Beckman Road, Lodi. 
The funeral planning committee meeting will be held at 7 p.m. today in the 
Annex at Lodi Buddhist Church.

Cherokee Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. 



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