Shizuko ("Sue") Takata, born in San Francisco, California on September 4, 1921 and long-time resident of Los Angeles, California, passed away peacefully on July 3, 2013. As a young child, Shizuko returned to Japan, completed high school in Japan and thereafter returned to America in 1938. After her release from the internment camp at Rohwer, Arkansas, she took up residence in Chicago where she met and married Tomoyuki ("Richard") Takata. The couple moved to Los Angeles in 1946. Shizuko enjoyed helping her husband establish and manage Southland Poults and Chick Sexing Service, as well as raising a family and enjoying her favorite pastimes of sewing, knitting and crocheting. Predeceased by her
husband Richard, she is survived by her three children – Gary, Susan (Tim Gorman) and Gail (Craig Rogers) as well as many nieces and nephews. A memorial service was held at Fukui Mortuary on August 3, 2013.