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Grandma Hayakawa's Obit and Funeral · Asian Adjacent

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  Speaker 1: So I'm deciding to share something that I found in
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  Speaker 1: my home. I've been going through stuff and throwing stuff
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  Speaker 1: out and organizing and keeping a few things here and there,
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  Speaker 1: but just kind of going through everything and deciding what
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  Speaker 1: I do not need. I have lots of clutter. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted out of my house, and I ran across the
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  Speaker 1: obituary that I had of my Japanese grandmother. Yes, I found.
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  Speaker 1: I was there at the funeral, and I sat in
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  Speaker 1: the front and I sat in the front row and
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  Speaker 1: with my with my Chinese and Japanese family, and she
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  Speaker 1: was alway nice to me, very much, so uh and
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  Speaker 1: she was very sweet, and you know, and I was
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  Speaker 1: a little Jamie to her, and and there was I
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  Speaker 1: never felt any thing we heard or crazy or strange
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  Speaker 1: from her. I was always love. And so I just
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  Speaker 1: found the whituary. So I decided, I think I want
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  Speaker 1: to just read it. It's because I think it's it's
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  Speaker 1: cool I found this. She died on August fourth, twenty thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Yoshiko Hayakawa was eighty four years old. The Demona Bello
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  Speaker 1: where she passed away. At the time, she survived by
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  Speaker 1: my grandfather Can Giero Hi Kawam, my dad Shigiru Hi Kawa,
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  Speaker 1: my and my mom Wendy who was alive at the time,
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  Speaker 1: Uncle Stephen, aunt Laura and his wife, Uncle Laine, his
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  Speaker 1: wife Judy, and Judy who I liked a lot and
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  Speaker 1: just had, you know, grandchildren, which I'm listening in of course,
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  Speaker 1: uh and various family members from various places. The funeral
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  Speaker 1: was August tenth, twenty thirteen, at a place called TV Space.
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  Speaker 1: It was on Woodrif Avenue in Downey. And I remember,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't drive, I remember taking there was no
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  Speaker 1: lift back then. How'd I get I'm telling, how'd I
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  Speaker 1: get out there? I think I took a cab. I
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  Speaker 1: remember pulling up in a cab, and then when I left,
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  Speaker 1: I think I took the bus home. I can't remember.
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  Speaker 1: I remember pulling up and it wasn't it wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: church or anything. It was in the service was in
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  Speaker 1: this space like a hall. And I do remember this.
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  Speaker 1: This is something I do remember. They got a reverend
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  Speaker 1: from Sacramento to do it, Kim Joe or Rashi for
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  Speaker 1: the Buddhist church. And she's buried the Fuchai Mortuary here
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  Speaker 1: in La So I went to. I went to her funeral,
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  Speaker 1: and I just remember it wasn't that sad, and people
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  Speaker 1: were like people were meaning like people were kind of
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  Speaker 1: you know, celebrating her. Feel said some words. They were
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  Speaker 1: very positive. There were greats. I remember that, but I
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  Speaker 1: mean we were sad as she went, but everybody was
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  Speaker 1: just like, this is great. And as always in the
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  Speaker 1: next room, they had the repass or your reception. I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you why. They always had good food. That was.
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  Speaker 1: That was never an issue. I always had good food.
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  Speaker 1: And we got to catch up to everybody. And I
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  Speaker 1: just remember for me, because at that point I was
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  Speaker 1: in my forties, just to all the older people, I
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  Speaker 1: was still Jamie. That's what always got me. I was
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  Speaker 1: still that little boy or that little that teenager. They
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  Speaker 1: always kept kept seeing me that way, so to speak.
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  Speaker 1: They're very kind and you know, ask what I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: now and stuff. But I was on TV at I've
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  Speaker 1: done a couple of things, but I wasn't. I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: in the business really fully yet. It was right before that.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of funny and uh, and just reminded you
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  Speaker 1: of my my mom winding and she was she was
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  Speaker 1: in remission from cancer. She was doing fine and I'm
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  Speaker 1: just like, dang, because I just just I just it
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  Speaker 1: just it's a happy as I found this, a happy
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  Speaker 1: memory and I'm keeping this from I'm keeping this. I
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  Speaker 1: want to keep this. Of course I turned over just now.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't turn it over so this now apparently it
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  Speaker 1: was eighty one degrees that day. Dang fogging them morning
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  Speaker 1: than the sun. Okay, I did I never I've never
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  Speaker 1: turned it over any one degrees anyway, Well, rest in peace, Grandma.
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  Speaker 1: Uh it's been thirteen years almost this year'll be thirteen years.
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  Speaker 1: Time flies. I'm James add Junior. This is Asian Adjacent again.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just sharing things part of my life. And I said,
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  Speaker 1: I found this, and I thought I'm gonna share it
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  Speaker 1: and if for future people or anybody from the family
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  Speaker 1: can hear. But I just said, because I actually have
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  Speaker 1: this sitting right here, I will talk to you all.
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