Densho Digital Repository - Grayce Kaneda Uyehara Interview

Densho Digital Repository
JACL Philadelphia Oral History Collection
Title: Grayce Kaneda Uyehara Interview
Narrator: Grayce Kaneda Uyehara
Interviewer: Herbert J. Horikawa
Location: Medford, New Jersey
Date: October 23, 1994
Densho ID: ddr-phljacl-1-12-1

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HH: This is Sunday, the 23rd of October, and we are recording this session in Medford Leas, New Jersey. What is your full name?

GU: My name is... oh, "what is your full name?" My name is Grayce Ritsu Kaneda Uyehara.

HH: And what is the name of your spouse?

GU: Hiroshi Uyehara.

HH: And how many siblings do you have?

GU: Six siblings and one has died.

HH: And what was the gender?

GU: In our family there were four boys and three girls. Oh, I'm forgetting to...

HH: That's all right. Four boys and three girls? And where do you all within that lineup?

GU: I'm the second-born, the oldest girl in the family.

HH: I see. And how many children do you have today, and what are their ages?

GU: How many children do we have? We have four children. The oldest, Chris, is forty-six years old, and he's in Malvern, Pennsylvania. And Lisa, who's forty-four years old, lives in South Hadley, Massachusetts. And Lawrence, Larry, lives in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, and he's forty-two. And the youngest, Paul Uyehara, who lives in Philadelphia, is thirty-nine years old.

HH: I see.