SACHIKO SAMMONS

SAMMONS
SACHIKO

Matriarch, Humanitarian, 90, passed away at her home on Nov. 4, 2019, after surviving three cancers and monitoring growing aorta aneurysms. Sachiko was preceded in death by her husband Girard. C. Sammons of Glenside, PA; her parents Heikichi and Sakae Hirai, her two brothers and two sisters, all of Japan. She is survived by her only daughter Treena Reid and only grandson Michael Brooks, Sr.; two great-grandchildren, Alexandria Brooks and Michael Brooks, Jr. Sachiko leaves six nieces and 7 nephews; and a plethora of extended family and close friends. Sachiko graduated from schools in Japan and worked in a bank there until she met, through the USO, SFC, and Military Policeman Girard C. Sammons, whom she married in 1949 and celebrated 52 years of marriage until his passing. Girard brought Sachiko and Treena to the United States in 1952. Girard received an honorary disability discharge after serving 20 years in the Army.
Sachiko was a strong loving matriarch to family, friends and her community. Her smile, humor, kind heart, as well as her love of collecting just about everything-from angels, dolls, turtles, linens, baskets, Japanese items, hearts, and Knick knacks will be warmly remembered. She possessed an uncanny ability to predict what would happen before they occurred. Her affection for reading was infectious as she would read everywhere and looked forward to her subscription to Reader's Digest and the next Danielle Steele book. She was a clipper of recipes, consumer suggestions, and self-help articles and contributed to her own recipe book. Her generosity and humility were unparalleled; benevolent and hospitable. Through the years, she took in and cared for friends and family; fed anyone who would walk in the door and made donations every other week to local charities and thrift shops. Her nickname was "Lucky": because she would win most times at the various casinos. She took much pleasure following Philadelphia Eagles, Tiger Woods, gymnastics, ice skating, and entertainment shows. She watched the news and had an extra fondness to Philadelphia's NBC10 news, where her son-in-law worked as a news director for 35 years. She spoiled her family and showered everyone with daily love and affection and lived her life, as she would always say, "I did it MY WAY."
A private service will take place at a later date.