Kiyoko Maruyama was born on January 14, 1926 in Hollister, California.  She was the 4th child of 5 children.  Her parents, Kichitaro and Yasu Kawase, immigrated from Hiroshima, Japan around 1920.  During the Great Depression the family settled into seed farming on the Rohnert Seed Farm and later poultry ranching.  Kiyoko attended school in Sonoma County.  At age 13 she decided to teach herself how to drive while the whole family was out and discovered the truck had no brakes crashing it into the side of the barn.  She confessed to her brother that it was she that did that but not until she was 45.  Kiyoko spent her high school years in the Amache Internment Camp in Colorado when the Japanese were taken from the West Coast during WWII.  While in the camp she worked in the medical lab until it closed at the end of the war.  She met her future husband, George Maruyama and his family while in camp.  Her father died in a hospital in Colorado at the end of internment.  At the end of the war Kiyoko lived in San Francisco working for a family as a domestic.  She moved with them to Pebble Beach, California.  George courted Kiyoko driving from Los Angeles to visit her in Pebble Beach.  They married January 18, 1948 in Los Angeles.  They had their daughter, Lynn in October of 1948.  And in January 1953 Kiyoko and George had a son, Clifford.  After the children were old enough, she started working.  Kiyoko ended her work life with a 23 year career at the Los Angeles County Superior Court in downtown Los Angeles as a purchasing supervisor.  While working at the Courthouse, she exercised daily by swimming at the newly built YMCA downtown.  Kiyoko lost her husband at the young age of 54 but continued working and maintaining the house they bought.  After retiring, she played golf about 3 times a week with various women's leagues.  She continued playing through her late 80's.  Kiyoko had dreamed of attending college after high school.  But she needed to support herself and never did.  However, while she was working for the County she attended Los Angeles City College and Trade Tech.  She even took a Japanese language class where she learned her knowledge of the language was really "baby" Japanese.  Kiyoko did some travel after her husband passed away.  Her first trip alone was to Japan, a country she returned to a few more times.  Kiyoko also went to Europe and Turkey.

Kiyoko is survived by brother, Haruo and wife Betty Kawase, her sister, Alice Inouye, her son, Clifford and wife Janet Maruyama, her daughter, Lynn Lee and grandchildren Bobby Onna, Candace and husband Sean Jennings, David and wife Zanna Gilbert Horvitz, Leanne Horvitz and great grandson Tatsu Hirahara Hayes and great granddaughter Ela Horvitz and many nieces and nephews and their children and grandchildren.

Kiyoko will be greatly missed by her family and friends.