BROWN and GARDNER

All families are as branches of a tree. We grow in different directions, but our roots remain the same.  

Juichi and Hae Fujimori's youngest daughter Jean Takako married Don Hiroshi Yamaoka in the Arkansas Internment camp during WWII. Don's parents were Hirokichi and Fukuyo Yamaoka who had three surviving children Don Hiroshi, Bob Minoru, and Lily Yuriko. Jean and Don had two daughters, Christina and Julia. Julia's only daughter is Courtney Brown, and Courtney's only daughter is Riley Garder.

Three Generations     

Yuriko Yamaoka Takenaka, Julia Sachiyo Yamaoka Thorn, Don Hiroshi Yamaoka, Obaachan Fukuyo Yamaoka, and precocious Courtney Tomiyo Brown who is three years old in this photo of a rare trip of Obaachan and Auntie Yuriko, Dad's younger sister, to come to visit the United States where Julia was living in Santee, California.