Sheila Kimiye Toyota ….

Sheila Kimiye Toyota

1947-2023

By all accounts Sheila Kimiye Toyota was a very private person, who while she kept personal details to herself, was always generous with a smile and laugh.

Shelia was born July 30, 1947 in Los Angeles, California, and passed away Feb. 7, 2023 at Orange Coast Memorial Hospital in Fountain Valley, California.

She was the daughter of Katherine and Tsugio Toyota of Los Angeles. She graduated John Marshall High School and worked for three decades for a succession of trucking companies in the billing and customer service division.

She never moved far from Los Angeles, working for a time in La Mirada and Buena Park. It was from Buena Park that she finally moved in 2007 to Leisure World, where she lived in Mutual 3 and worked 10 years in Security.

Shelia enjoyed going to the movies, out to lunch with her girlfriends and going on cruises.

She is survived by her daughter Lauryn Kato (Darin) and her grandson Jaden of Gardena, California.

There were no services. Shelia generously donated her body to University of California in Irvine’s Willed Body Program.