Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Yanagihara, Mary (Yoshioka) December 30, 1916
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., 1-2-1917
YANAGIHARA, MARY nee YOSHIOKA
THE SAD DEATH OF MRS. YANAGIHARA.  Mrs. Yanagihara, wife of Dr. K. Yanagihara of 
Kilauea, died unexpectedly Sunday afternoon. She was a woman not only prominent in 
the Japanese community but known and well liked among the people of other 
nationalities. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. M. Lydgate at the 
Kilauea church and were very largely attended by all classes from the whole 
surrounding country so that the church was crowded to overflowing. The services 
were unusually impressive and affecting because of the evidence of feeling that 
could be restrained only with difficulty. The grave was fairly smothered with a 
profusion of flowers which came without distinction from all classes and 
conditions of people, to all of whom she was a friend. Mary Yoshioka Yanagihara 
was born at Kalihiwai, Kauai, but spent most of her girlhood at Kapaa where her 
father was a contractor and luna on the plantation. She was educated at Kamehameha 
and the Normal School where she was an exceptionally apt student as well as a 
great favorite. On her return to Kauai, she was married to Dr. Yanagihara in 1902. 
A very excellent teacher, she has been very much in demand in that profession and 
has taught in the Kilauea schools during a good part of her married life. She was 
endowed with a charming personality that won her friends in all directions and was 
so modest and unassuming that it awakened no resentment or jealously. This 
personality was grounded in a fine character that could be counted on to be every 
day the same -- generous, unselfish, kindly, forgiving, forbearing. She was a beam 
of sunshine in any home and a benediction in any community. She was very dearly 
loved in the local community among all classes and will be very sadly missed. 


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