Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Saturday, April 14, 2007 at 05:38:25 :
Independent Journal
Monday, February 20, 1978
Page 4
HARRY N. OKUBARA
Services were held for Harry Nobusuke Okubara, a 69-year resident of Mill Valley.
Okubara died in a Sonoma County convalescent hospital Saturday after a short illness. He was 92.
He was a native of Japan who came to the United States in 1904. He worked on railroads near Fresno before coming to Marin in 1909.
Okubara retired 12 years ago after being a self-employed gardener for many years.
He is survived by two sons, Roy Minoru Okubara of Mill Valley and Mikota Sam Okubara of Sonoma; a daughter, Hisako Fujikawa of Japan; a brother, Mineji Ioka of Japan; 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Inurnment will be in Japan.
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A Death Notice in the same paper mentions that he was a member of the Marin Buddhist Church of Mill Valley.
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