Louise Toyoko Hirabayashi

I met Louise in 1991 at a Nature Conservancy property, Pine Butte Ranch, near Chouteau, Montana. We were both there to attend a dinosaur workshop week. We hit it off immediately as we both had a lifelong obsession with dinosaurs and were assigned as dig partners to excavate duck-billed dinosaur fossils. We had a wonderful time that week. When I started working at the Smithsonian and got into preparation of T tex fossil material, she was so excited. We went back to Pine Butte in 2008 for...

Louise, I will the excitement in your voice when you told me of your trips to AARP conventions, dinosaur excavations, your many facts, figures, rides, parades and more at Disneyland and Disneyworld. You were always upbeat looking forward. May you have many more adventures! We love you and miss you. Kathy, Laurel, Omar and Vic