Lily Yuriko Taka passed away peacefully on March 1, 2019, in Riverside, California, at 102 years. She was born in Riverside on August 12, 1916, to George Toranosuke Fujimoto and Suna Sugi Fujimoto, the eldest of six children.
She attended Fremont Elementary School, Central Junior High School and graduated from Poly High School class of 1935. From 1935 to 1937 she attended Keisen Christian Girls School in Tokyo, Japan. In June, 1941, she married Harrie Taka in Los Angeles.
In 1942, due to Executive Order 9066, she was detained at the Poston, Arizona, Japanese internment camp for two years. In 1944 the young family was permitted to leave the camp and relocated to Des Moines, Iowa, where they stayed for twenty years.
Lily returned to Riverside in 1964, where she was employed at UCR entomology department and several area hospitals as a medical transcriber. She was a member of First Christian Church of Riverside for 55 years, for which she arranged the Sunday flowers for decades. She was fond of gardening and donated flowers from her garden. She is survived by a brother, Charles Fujimoto, and a sister, Mable Zink, three children, Ruth Taka, Beverly Inaba, and Leroy Taka, four grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be held on Monday, March 18, 2019 from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm at Acheson and Graham Garden of Prayer Mortuary, 7944 Magnolia Avenue, Riverside, California 92504.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 10:00 am at First Christian Church, 4055 Jurupa Avenue, Riverside, California 92506.
Committal services will follow at 11:30 am at Olivewood Memorial Park, 3300 Central Avenue, Riverside, California 92506
Serving as pallbearers are Leroy Taka, Wayne Fujimoto, Greg Shapter, Grant Inaba, Halyard Freyder and Kaiyo Freyder.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.AchesonandGraham.com for the Taka family.
