Mitsuru Yodogawa dead at 64
The ranks of Steveston's community of Japanese Canadian fishermen were further depleted May 24 with the death of Mitsuru Yodogawa, who succumbed to cancer.
Born in Steveston in 1914, Yodogawa was a river fisherman from the age of 17, earning his living with his gillnetter Ruby. But with the destruction of the Japanese fishing community during the Second World War, fie was forced in 1942 to move to the interior, where his family was placed in an internment camp at Greenwood, B.C., in the south Okanagan.
During the war years and for several years after, he worked on railway track-laying crews, but in 1950, UFAWU records show he transferred from the CPR employees' union to the UFAWU and resumed gillnet-ting.
The boat he obtained that year, Naomi Y, stood him in good stead until illness forced his retirement in January. It is being fished this year by his son Doug.
Yodogawa was able to make a single last fishing trip with his family.
He is survived by his wife, Mariko, herself a 17-year employee of Nelson Bros, cannery until her retirement, his sons Doug, of Steveston and Ricky of Surrey; and his daughters Mrs. Pearl Morioka of Surrey, Mrs. Patsy Wood of Vancouver, and Hiromu and Amy of Steveston.
William Jacobsen passes in Victoria
Members of Victoria Local 24 are mourning the death June 14 of William Jacobsen, a UFAWU member since 1945 and an honorary member since April, 1975. He was 76.
Born in Cumberland, B.C. in 1903, Jacobsen started fishing in Bella Coola at the age of. 20 and was one of the first fishermen to use the gas boats as they came in. He fished until 1973 aboard his gillnetter Faithful.
Following his retirement, Jacobsen suffered a severe stroke, and although he was paralyzed, his mind was keen and he was still interested in the fishing industry and enjoyed hearing about it.
Jacobsen will be missed by his many friends and fellow fishermen who had come to know him 60 well over the many years which he spent in the fishing industry.
He" is survived by his wife Ragna, his sons Mark, Harold, Kent and Verner of Delta; his three daughters Colleen, Ruth and Rhoda; and by 14 grandchildren.
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