Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Grace Oshita

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Grace Oshita 2-26-85 s5:27 ** L GO L of t:his worry for her, for the mother, all along with the mother, for the boy. Ah, there was a mother's dog tobe taken to a friends so that she could be taken care of. All these little things were little soecial • I events that happened. The packing was routine .• but it's these little things thathappen that I remember that made it worse. You mean these are the events through which you could feel moving more. Yes. Whab happened to the dog. (It was another one's dog) GO We didn't. It was the Nakamoto family dog. If you remember mymother had married my Dad only a year or sobefore Pearl Harbor. And so I say it's her dog because she always slept at the foot of her bed.But. She was really quite old. Quite pretty thing. A white spitz and co11ie mixture. And her former boss-the dressmaker, her sister was very close friend of my mother's also. And loved dogs. And so she offered to take Queenie. So she came to get her and we used to get letters from her often tellingwhere she had taken Queenie. Or - and finally, after , how she died of old age or proabbly heartache, whatever. My grandmother, Nakamoto, I'm sure my mother will tell you more about her. But, all the ambulatory- anyway, the - no-- she wasn't -- She came home for awhile but after her operation, I don't think she was able to get up fast, you know, easily. L She wasn't ambulatory. GO No, she wasn't. But we had heard that all the sick Japanese wouldbe moved to the San- -tel Hospital. For what reason, I don't know. They