••• Mitsuko H. Yamamoto ….

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Mitsuko H. Yamamoto 1926-2021 Mitsuko Hashimoto Yamamoto was born in December 1926 in Puente, California (now La Puente).

Moving with her family to Japan in 1933 after the death of her father, she lived just outside of the city of Hiroshima and was there when the Atomic Bomb was dropped on Aug. 6, 1945. She carried the traumatic memories of the many burn victims walking through their town, trying to escape the fires and devastation, throughout the remainder of her life.

She returned to the United States in 1948 and shortly after met Joe Yamamoto, whom she married in 1951. They would be married until his death in 2015, just short of 64 years. They had three children, Ruth (deceased),

David and Arnold. At the time of her death, she had four grandchildren and seven great- grandchildren.

Mitsuko and Joe had lived in Leisure World Seal Beach since 2007.

Mitsuko passed away at home on June 12, with David and Arnold present. She will be interred with her husband in Green Hills Cemetery in Rancho Palos Verdes.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, June 26, at noon at the Long Beach Buddhist Temple, 2360 Santa Fe Ave., Long Beach.