Densho Digital Archive
Watsonville - Santa Cruz JACL Collection
Title: Fred Oda Interview
Narrator: Fred Oda
Interviewer: Tom Ikeda
Location: Watsonville, California
Date: November 19, 2008
Densho ID: denshovh-ofred_2-01-0028

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TI: So let's talk a little bit about your family. So at some point you got married. So who did you marry and when did you get married?

FO: [Laughs] I don't keep track of those things. That's what she gets PO'd, anniversary and wedding, I mean, birthday, I'm not sentimental that way.

TI: But do you remember the year you got married?

FO: Gee, I never did keep track.

TI: Were you married in Watsonville?

FO: Yeah.

TI: And how did you meet your wife?

FO: How did I meet? At a dance, I guess.

TI: And her name is?

FO: Huh?

TI: What's your wife's name?

FO: Betty.

TI: Betty, and what's her maiden name?

FO: Fujita.

TI: Betty Fujita. And you met at a dance, and this is after the war that you met?

FO: Yeah.

TI: And did the two of you have children?

FO: Yeah, we have two daughters.

TI: And your daughters' names are?

FO: Becky and Diane.

TI: And then you mentioned that you have grandchildren?

FO: Yeah, I have five. Diane has a boy and a girl, and Becky has two boys and a girl.

TI: And do they live nearby?

FO: Yeah, they live in Foster City.

TI: Okay, so you get a chance to see them every once in a while.

FO: Yeah. In fact, we were there the other day.

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