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OBITUARY: Sally Osaki, First JA Woman to Work in S.F. City Politics
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Sally Osaki
SAN FRANCISCO  Sally Sumiye Osaki passed away peacefully on Saturday, Jan. 30. She was 88 years old.
Born on Sept. 18, 1932, she was born the youngest of six siblings to Tadahiko and Chika Noda on a small farm outside Selma, Calif. Both her parents immigrated from Kumamoto in the early 1900s. Due to the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII, from the ages of 9 to 12, she grew up in the Gila River concentration camp in Arizona.
The family returned to Selma in 1945, and her parents continued to farm until their retirement. After graduation from Selma Union High School, she moved to San Francisco to attend a dental assistant school. ....

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