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TI: And before we go there, let's go back, so, so your, I guess I can't remember if it was your uncle or somebody, was sick or died at Gila River, and so you went to Gila.

FH: My grandfather.

TI: Your grandfather. And so tell me what it was like going to Gila River. Do you remember what Gila River was like versus Poston? Were they, like, the same or were there differences?

FH: Looked a little nicer, Gila. Course every place looked nicer, I suppose. We took a train and then a truck, both ways.

TI: And can you describe the service at Gila River, what that was like?

FH: You mean the funeral service?

TI: The funeral service, yeah.

FH: Buddhist funeral service. It was a short one.

TI: And where would they have the service?

FH: In one of the rec halls. I don't think they had a special church built at all. Most places didn't. They had to use the rec halls for a church.

TI: And do you recall, was there a cremation?

FH: I don't remember what happened then. I imagine it was a cremation.

TI: Okay.

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