Kiyomi Nashiro Kayo

Born Leonila Nashiro Dancel on April 20, 1956, in Okinawa-shi, Okinawa, she was the first-born child to Primo and Kimi Dancel. After a number of years, the family settled in Guam, where she spent most of her life.

After graduating from John F. Kennedy High School in Tumon, Guam, in 1975, she met and later married Munetaka Kayo of Osaka, Japan, and the couple had three children.

Mrs. Kayo enjoyed a long and successful career working with two major airlines at Guam's Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport. She worked for Continental Air Micronesia, which later became Continental Airlines, from 1988 to 2005, and Japan Airlines from 2005 to 2013.

Last year, Mrs. Kayo and her husband moved to Mountlake Terrace, Wash., to be closer to their three children, and they lived together in a home the family had purchased years earlier.

Mrs. Kayo was a kind and generous person who always placed the needs and wishes of others before her own. She enjoyed simple things, including beading, traveling, shopping and spending time with her family, friends and her dogs.

Mrs. Kayo passed away peacefully on March 2, 2014, at her home, surrounded by her husband and children, after a courageous five-year battle with lung cancer.

Mrs. Kayo is predeceased by her mother, Kimi Dancel, and survived by her father, Primo Dancel, of Guam; husband, Munetaka Kayo, of Mountlake Terrace, Wash.; her brother Ben Dancel and his wife Jho, of Guam; sister Margarita Dancel and her partner Rene Hlousek, of Guam; sister Ginnie Martin and her husband Richard, of Tampa, Fla.; her three children, Mika, Ken and Tadashi Kayo; and several nieces and nephews.