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KL: I wondered if you would tell us about the latter part, also, of your grandmother Omachi and also your grandparents, Igarashis' lives. Where did they, what was their life like after, after the camps?
HK: Well, I think, as I said, my grandmother Omachi went back with the Takegishis, 'cause that was her oldest daughter, and then she lived there in Loomis with them. And then she passed away in 1948.
KL: Oh, that's right. That's right, I forgot she died shortly after. And the Igarashis?
HK: And then my Grandmother Igarashi, as I said, lived with us in the '50s, but by then she was bedridden and so we all took care of her. She passed away on July 24, 1959.
KL: And she was already a widow?
HK: No, no. No, because then our (...) grandfather, Kanematsu Igarashi, continued to live with us. And (...) he passed away in... oh no, I'm sorry, he passed away in '59 and my grandmother passed away in '52.
KL: Did he ever become a U.S. citizen, or consider it?
HK: I don't remember, recall if any of my grandparents became citizens. I know my husband became a U.S. citizen when, he wanted to become a U.S. citizen when we had our bicentennial, (in) 1976, I think it was. (Yes), so he thought that was a good way to remember.
KL: What about your uncle Joe? What was...
HK: Uncle Joe...
KL: Was he in, was he in one of the camps? Or did he leave the exclusion zone?
HK: Yes, I think I have that here. [Reads notes] Yeah, he married Arlis Kaneda (...) in December 1940, and then they were interned at Gila River Relocation Camp in Arizona from 1942 to 1944.
KL: I would be interested to know more about him as a lawyer, to be in one of those camps.
HK: (Yes). And then he returned to Stockton December 1945, where he was practicing law in in 1945. Well, I think I remember asking him what kind of law he was doing. He was saying that he was mainly doing family law, especially couples that were divorcing and so forth.
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