Yoshie Igusa

1927 - 2019

On May 24, 2019, Yoshie Igusa (nee Yamamoto). Yoshie was born in Kanda, a historical neighborhood of Tokyo, on March 29, 1927. As a young woman, while working on the design of optical lenses, she met her future husband, the late Jun-ichi Igusa. They married, started their family, and moved to Baltimore in 1955 where her husband joined the mathematics faculty at Johns Hopkins. They enjoyed an active social life with his colleagues and their families as well as other Japanese families in the area. They took many trips to Europe and Japan also visited India and China. After her husband passed away in 2013, Yoshie spent the last few years enjoying the community at Towson Brightview. She is survived by her sons Kiyoshi (Gordana Todorov) of Newton Center, Massachusetts, Takeru (Catherine Renggli) of Stoneleigh, and Mitsuru (Sallie) of Los Gatos, California, and seven grandchildren.Services will held previously.