Obit of the Day: HisandHerstory
Professors Wayne Maeda and Lorrie Toohey-Maeda both had a love of history. Prof. Maeda was a distinguished scholar in the field of Japanese American history at Sacramento State University. Prof. Toohey-Maeda was a history professor at Sacramento City College with interests in Native American history, food history, and environmental history. They had collaborated on project documenting the lives of the Japanese-Americans in Sacramento and became friends. They married in 2008.
Prof. Maeda, who was the son of Japanese American parents interned in Arizona during the war, was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2011. Prof. Toohey-Maeda, a member of the Yurok tribe, had survived one fight with breast cancer but it had a recent recurrence. Prof. Toohey-Maeda recognized that her husband was dying and decided to forego her own chemotherapy in order that she could be with him in their home.
Wayne Maeda died on February 27, 2013 at the age of 65. Lorrie Toohey-Maeda died three days later on March 2, 2013 at the age of 64.
Source: The Sacramento Bee
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WHILE YOU ARE CELEBRATING WITH FOOD, PRESENTS AND FAMILY TODAY PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT HAVE NOTHING AND NO ONE TODAY AS WELL AS WELL AS EVERYDAY!
Luke 14:12-14 He said also to the one who had invited him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
SO…DO YOU STAND UP TO HIS MEASURE? DO YOU DO HIS GOOD WORKS? TODAY OF ALL DAYS THE BEST WAY TO CELEBRATE IS TO HONOR HIM WITH WHAT HE WOULD HAVE DONE?
