Historic Hood River
Tetsuo Takasumi
Notes
This is an official US Army Photograph from the Hood River News archives, so presumably it appeared in the newspaper in 1957.
Fortunately the US Army has extensive record-keeping rules so the caption tells us 1st Lt. Takasumi was stationed at Fort Ord, California, and a member of the Sixth US Army Pistol Team. The photographer was Ken Hilmer, from the US Army Central Photo Lab in the Presidio of San Francisco, California, and I’m required to credit the US Army as I did above.
This photograph seems to be a good match to “Ned” Takasumi in this obituary. He was born in Hood River in 1925, and was taken out of high school and incarcerated with his family during World War II. You can read a more extensive biography here which covers his military and post-military career.
I wonder if he was related to the Takasumi brother of Odell who we saw in this image from the 1920s?
Jeffrey Bryant
Tetsuo Ned Takasumi was a younger brother of Mits and Mas Takasumi.
Arlen L sheldrake
Father John L. always maintained that those Japanese loyal to the emperor left the HR County well before Pearl Harbor. Those that stayed were no threat. As a Deputy Sheriff, he always felt bad about what he was required to do during the removal. I will always remember his stories about how he learned to deal with issues with the Japanese kids…..you went to the father and he fixed the problem.
L. E.
Of the seven children in the family, I think Tetsuo is the only one not buried at Idlewilde.
Find A Grave says his father Tokuzo invented and patented Fruit Shears.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47369248/tokuzo-takasumi