Mom

Four generations - Mom with daughter, Janet, and son-in-law, Hank, and grand-daughter, Karen, and great grand-daughters, Arete and Tarn...

Mom with dear friends - Ursula Suggs, Winnie&Don Yates - neighbors and daily walking buddies...

Mom crochetting an afghan for the church bazaar - Mom made her daily walks profitable in a number of ways - first it was good for her health; it was also a social outing with her dear neighbors; and she gathered aluminum cans along the way and from the city's garbage cans, a latter-day bag lady she was - she then used the money from recycling the aluminum to buy yarn to crochet blankets to sell at the church bazaars for fund raising for the work of the church...

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December 11, 1986. "I've been busy making afghans for a lady. She wants them before Christmas so I've been at them 12 to 14 hours a day. Hope to finish the last one soon, then she has another one she wants me to make for her. Also another lady wants one made too but she's waiting for K-Mart to have a sale. So am I......." (Excerpt from letter from Gr/maNagai to StevenTanaka)

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The last family photograph taken with Mom in it - this was Thanksgiving 1999, when we celebrated the completion of Janet's new koi pond - Mom gave her blessings to the new addition to her home in Fresno - a Thanks giving day, indeed...