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Wednesday, August 16, 2017
East Oregonian
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OBITUARIES
DEATH NOTICES
MONDAY
Ida Martina Wilson
Loretta M. Green Donaldson
Pendleton
June 24, 1974 - August 11, 2017
Walla Walla
Oct. 19, 1939 - Aug. 10, 2017
6:54 a.m. - Pendleton police found graffiti on the city’s parkway
along the southwest portion of the Umatilla River. At the same
time, police received information of criminal mischief at Eastern
Oregon Correctional Institution, 2500 Westgate Drive.
9:08 a.m. - A driver eastbound on Interstate 84 near
Boardman reported a white semi-tractor with a blue trailer forced
them off the road. Law enforcement did not find the semi.
10:34 a.m. - Staff at the United States Postal Service office
in Heppner reported a strange smell from the ventilation for the
past week or so, and it was getting worse and people felt ill. The
Heppner Fire Department responded but did not find the smell or
anything else out of the ordinary.
11:03 a.m. - A Milton-Freewater woman on the 200 block of
Northwest Eighth Avenue reported juveniles threw food items at
her house.
3:59 p.m. - Oregon State Police responded to a report of a
woman wearing only a bikini top and lying on the southbound
side of Highway 11 near milepost 21. A trooper and sergeant
contacted the woman, who was incoherent and distraught.
She tried to walk into the road, so the police detained her and
contacted the mental health provider Lifeways. The trooper took
the woman to a hospital for a mental evaluation and released her
to the care of staff there.
4:49 p.m. - Pendleton police responded to a fight at Indian Hills
Chevron, 309 S.E. Nye Ave., Pendleton, and issued a warning.
8:02 p.m. - Hermiston police conducted the first of 14 building
or area checks before midnight.
8:20 p.m. - The Boardman Rural Fire Protection District
received a complaint about an illegal burn on the south side
of Parkside Road near Ridge Crest Lane, Boardman. The fire
department responded and warned the homeowners for illegal
burning.
ARRESTS, CITATIONS
•Hermiston police cited Andres Charles Lorenzo, 24, of 1115
S.W. Sandy Drive, Hermiston, for driving under the influence of
intoxicants, no driver’s license and failure to drive within the lane.
Hermiston police reported his blood-alcohol content was .21
percent, almost three times the legal limit of .08 percent.
•Pendleton police at 4:40 p.m. responded to a fight at
Rodeway Inn & Suites, 205 S.E. Dorion Ave., and arrested John
Christopher Pratt, 44, no address provided, on a warrant out of
Clackamas County.
•Hermiston police arrested Miranda Alicia Longoria,
20, of Hermiston, for third-degree theft and possession of
methamphetamine.
•Oregon State Police at about 7 p.m. on the eastbound lanes
of Interstate 84 near milepost 199 caught a driver in a silver
BMW 321 going 105 mph. Police cited Karla Janira Alvarado
Figueroa, 18, of Pendleton, for speeding (the speed limit there
for passenger vehicles is 70 mph). Police also cited her for failure
to properly secure a child passenger for her son in the backseat
who was unrestrained. And she received a criminal citation for
recklessly endangering another person, her son.
Ida Martina Wilson, 43,
passed away at her home in
Pendleton on Friday, August
11, 2017. She was born June
24, 1974, in Pendleton, Ore.,
to Leland and Cheryl Wilson.
She is survived by her
siblings Esther Huesties of
Pendleton, Oregon, Leland
Wilson Jr., Levi
Wilson and Rech-
elle Sue Wilson of
Pendleton, Oregon;
her son Ben Dave
Jr. of Pendleton;
nieces
Diamond
and Gladys Wilson
and nephew George
Wilson of Astoria,
and Althea Huesties
of
Pendleton,
Oregon; paternal Wilson
grandmother
Elizabeth Henry;
and numerous aunts, uncles,
nieces and nephews in
Oregon, Washington, and
Idaho.
Her maternal grandpar-
ents were the late George and
Ida Patrick, and her maternal
great-grandparents were Ike
and Ada Patrick.
Ida graduated in 1992
from Madison High School
in Portland, Oregon. She
moved home and worked
many years at Wildhorse
Casino as a table games
dealer and worked at Mission
Market.
She
loved
joking,
laughing, and being around
family and friends and she
especially
loved
being around her
son Ben.
The
Dressing
Ceremony
was
held
Tuesday,
August 15, 2017,
at 2:00 p.m. at
Burns Mortuary of
Pendleton. Washat
Service was held at
the Longhouse on
Tuesday, August
15, 2017, at 7:00
p.m. Last Seven
Songs was held August 16,
2017, at the Longhouse
at 7:00 a.m. Interment is
at Tutuilla Cemetery. Dr.
Ronald Pond and Armand
Minthorn officiated the
services.
Burns Mortuary is in
charge of the services. Sign
the online condolence book
at www.burnsmortuary.com.
UPCOMING SERVICES
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 16
No services scheduled
THURSDAY, AUG. 17
No services scheduled
Loretta M. Green Donaldson, 77, died Thursday, Aug. 10,
2017, in Walla Walla. She was born Oct. 19, 1939, in Pasco,
Wash. Funeral and Cremation Care of the Tri-Cities handled
disposition.
Stephen George ‘Steve’ Ireland
Baker City
Oct. 13, 1952 - Aug. 10, 2017
Former Milton-Freewater resident Stephen George “Steve”
Ireland, 64, of Baker City died Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017, at his
home. He was born Oct. 13, 1952. A memorial service will
be held Sunday, Aug. 20 at 3 p.m. in the recreation room at
2970 Walnut St., Baker City. Graveside services will be held
Tuesday, Aug. 22 at 10 a.m. at the Milton-Freewater Ceme-
tery. Munselle-Rhodes Funeral Home in Milton-Freewater is
in charge of arrangements.
Loretta Faye Mason
Milton-Freewater
Oct. 2, 1923 - Aug. 14, 2017
Loretta Faye Mason, 93, of Milton-Freewater died Monday,
Aug. 14, 2017, in Milton-Freewater. She was born Oct. 2,
1923. Munselle-Rhodes Funeral Home in Milton-Freewater
is in charge of arrangements.
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MEETINGS
U.S. vet returns dead Japanese
soldier’s flag to emotional kin
By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Associated Press
HIGASHISHIRAKAWA,
Japan — Tatsuya Yasue
buried his face into the flag
and smelled it. Then he held
the 93-year-old hands that
brought this treasure home,
and kissed them.
Marvin Strombo, who had
taken the calligraphy-covered
Japanese flag from a dead
soldier on a World War II
island battlefield 73 years
ago, returned it Tuesday to
the family of Sadao Yasue.
They had never received any
of his remains or belongings
— until that moment.
The
soldier’s
sister,
Sayoko Furuta, 93, sitting
in her wheelchair, covered
her face with both hands
and wept silently as Tatsuya
placed the flag on her lap.
Strombo reached out and
gently rubbed her shoulder.
“I was so happy that I
returned the flag,” Strombo
said. “I can see how much
the flag meant to her. That
almost made me cry ... It
meant everything in the
world to her.”
The
flag’s
white
background is filled with
signatures of 180 friends and
neighbors in this tea-growing
mountain village of Higash-
ishirakawa, wishing for
Yasue’s safe return. The
signatures helped Strombo
find the flag’s rightful owners.
“Good luck forever at
the battlefield,” a message
on it reads. Looking at the
names and their handwriting,
Tatsuya Yasue clearly recalls
their faces and friendship
with his older brother.
The smell of the flag
immediately brought back
childhood memories. “It
smelled like my good old big
brother, and it smelled like
our mother’s home cooking
we ate together,” Tatsuya
Yasue said. “The flag will be
our treasure.”
The return of the
flag brings closure, the
89-year-old farmer told
The Associated Press at his
400-year-old house. “It’s like
the war has finally ended and
my brother can come out of
limbo.”
The return of the flag
Tuesday came on the anni-
versary of the end of World
War II when Japan prays for
its war dead. It also comes
during the Japanese “obon”
week when the spirits of the
dead are believed to visit their
families. Yasue said he hoped
the flag’s return conveys the
message of peace and recon-
ciliation and that he wants to
keep telling younger genera-
tions his story so the tragedy
should never be repeated.
Tatsuya Yasue last saw his
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AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko
WWII veteran Marvin Strombo, right, and Tatsuya Yasue, 89-year-old farmer, hold a
Japanese flag with autographed messages which was owned by his brother Sadao
Yasue, who was killed in the Pacific during World Work II, during a ceremony in Hi-
gashishirakawa, in central Japan’s Gifu prefecture Tuesday. Strombo has returned to
the fallen soldier’s family the calligraphy-covered flag he took from the man’s body
73 years ago.
brother alive the day before
he left for the South Pacific
in 1943. He and two siblings
had a small send-off picnic
for the oldest brother outside
his military unit over sushi
and Japanese sweet mochi. At
the end of the meeting, Sadao
whispered to Tatsuya, asking
him to take good care of their
parents, as he would be sent
to the Pacific islands, harsh
battlegrounds where chances
of survival were low.
A year later, Japanese
authorities sent the family a
wooden box with a few stones
at the bottom — a substitute
for his body. They knew no
details of Sadeo’s death until
months after the war ended,
when they were told he died
somewhere in the Mariana
Islands presumably on July
18, 1944, the day Saipan fell,
at age 25.
“That’s all we were told
about my brother. We never
knew exactly when, where
or how he died,” he said.
The family had wondered
whether he might have
died at sea. About 20 years
ago, Tatsuya Yasue visited
Saipan with his younger
brother, trying to imagine
what their older brother
might have experienced.
So Strombo was able to
give Yasue’s family not just
a flag, but also some answers.
He said he found Sadao
Yasue’s body on the outskirts
of Garapan, a village in
Saipan, when he got lost and
ended up near the Japanese
frontline. He told Yasue’s
siblings their brother likely
died of a concussion from a
mortar round. He told them
that Sadao was lying on
the ground on his left side,
looking peacefully as if he
was sleeping and without
severe wounds.
Strombo also delivered
a little hope that Sadao
Yasue’s body might one day
be recovered, given that he
remembered those details
and the location was on land
rather than at sea.
The remains of nearly half
of the 2.4 million Japanese
war dead overseas have yet to
be found. It’s a pressing issue
as the bereaved families reach
old age and memories fade.
Allied troops frequently
took the flags from the
bodies of their enemies as
souvenirs, as Japanese flags
were quite popular and
fetched good prices when
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But to the Japanese bereaved
families, they have a much
deeper meaning, especially
those, like Yasue, who never
learned how their loved ones
died and never received
remains. Japan’s government
has asked auction sites to stop
trading wartime signed flags.
Strombo said he originally
wanted the flag as a souvenir
from the war, but he felt
guilty taking it, so he never
sold it and vowed to one day
return it.
He had the flag hung in
a glass-fronted gun cabinet
in his home in Montana for
years, a topic of conversation
for visitors. A U.S. Marine, he
was in the battles of Saipan,
Tarawa and Tinian, which
chipped away at Japan’s
control of islands in the
Pacific and paved the way for
U.S. victory.
In 2012, he was connected
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Oregon-based nonprofit that
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descendants return Japanese
flags to the families of fallen
soldiers. The group’s research
traced it to the village of
2,300 people in central Japan
by analyzing family names.
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