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RP: So, part of the family, both families actually ended up in, in Brigham City, the Nakashimas and the Yoshinagas.
KN: Yeah, 'cause the camp was closing. They had to go someplace and we the only one outside. So, so we had to take 'em all in. We had to find housing for them and then get them a job.
RP: Uh-huh. And eventually Roy came back from the service and...
KN: [Looks off camera] They came...
Off Camera: He was in the service a long time. He was in the service a long time.
KN: Yeah, my brother was in the service a long time, so...
RP: But he settled back in, in that area?
Off Camera: Yeah. He decides to settle in Ogden. He decides to stay. He doesn't come back to Florin.
KN: No, he stayed in Ogden. He worked for Hill Field. It was an Army/Air Force base that he got a job there.
RP: Your sister who passed away from tuberculosis, eventually wasn't her body, her body was shipped to...
KN: Yeah.
RP: ...to Ogden?
KN: Ogden, uh-huh.
RP: And you had a funeral?
KN: Yeah, funeral in Ogden Buddhist Church. And then we cremated her. And I think we brought her ashes home. I think it's in Sacramento Memorial, I think we got her ashes, we brought her with us.
RP: Do you know roughly when she passed away?
Off Camera: It would have been around '47, I would guess.
KN: In the 1940s sometime.
Off Camera: It was after the war.
KN: Yeah.
Off Camera: She died after the war.
RP: Oh, she died after the war?
Off Camera: I think so. Because... maybe '46 or '47, judging by the picture. I can just tell by the ages of the kids but I, since I haven't...
Off Camera: It's '47, that's what, that's what it says on the urn.
Off Camera: Oh. Yeah, probably '47.
RP: So, had anybody in the family have a chance to visit her after the war ended and the camp, and you came out of camp? Did she have...
Off Camera: Just Roy, Just Roy. Roy visited her briefly I think. But, I don't think you ever got to visit her, right?
KN: I thought we did visit her, daytime at Weimar and she was sitting outside and we talked to her and we couldn't stay so we came right back. We visited her once but didn't.
RP: Oh okay.
Off Camera: She was a valedictorian wasn't she?
KN: Yeah, she was the smartest one in our family.
RP: Really.
KN: Yeah.
RP: Valedictorian of...
Off Camera: High school.
KN: Florin Grammar School
Off Camera: Grammar School.
KN: She...
RP: Oh, grammar school.
KN: Valedictorian and all through high school she was the smartest in the class. She had straight As. But what good is that when you get sick and die?
RP: So do you have any recollections of the funeral?
KN: Yeah, we had a funeral in Ogden. Yeah, we had, we had her body shipped to Ogden, cremated.
RP: Did anybody go with the body or just it was shipped...
KN: No.
RP: Nobody from the family?
KN: We just had a funeral at the Ogden Buddhist Church and we had her cremated and brought the ashes home.
RP: Uh-huh. Is that where the family was attending church?
Off Camera: No, it was because they didn't have a Buddhist Church in Brigham.
RP: Okay.
Off Camera: That was the closest one. That's my guess. The closest Buddhist church was Ogden.
RP: Were there was no Japanese stores or community in Brigham at all? Was there...
Off Camera: Just in that cannery.
RP: Just the cannery.
Off Camera: Just the cannery, right. Brigham was a small town. It was a very small town. So I'd imagine that...
RP: And was there, was the camp for the other workers nearby? Was it like a --
KN: No, I don't think so.
RP: -- company town where they provided housing for you?
KN: No. [Looks off camera] Did Pringle have a housing?
Off Camera: You know, I don't know, I don't know where everybody lived. I don't know.
KN: Yeah.
Off Camera: They must have lived nearby.
RP: Yeah.
KN: Yeah, in the back of the camp, plant I think there were some houses that the Suginos and them lived. You know, Lucy and them lived but then not actually housing. You had to find a place to live yourself.
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