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Joseph NAKASHIMA

Rancho Palos Verdes, California

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NAKASHIMA, Joseph Sept. 8, 1923-May 23, 2013 Joseph Nakashima, 89, passed away peacefully on May 23, 2013 after a brief battle with lymphoma. A longtime resident of Gardena, he was predeceased by wife, Mitzi, his parents, Kinpai and Chiye, brothers, Isamu and Tatsuo, sister, Jane...

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I was calling Joe to see if he wanted to have lunch and found that his phone was disconnected. It was only today, through the internet, that I had found he had passed. Joe was such a wonderful, caring, unselfish person. I remembered he talked about helping a friend of his who was dying and did not have anyone.

He was one of the coolest over 80 I know. At 89, a few months before his death, when we met up for lunch, he pulls up in a sports car. You can't get cooler than...