Dwight Ken Nishimura

DWIGHT KEN NISHIMURA, 77, died January 8, 2005. He was born on January 5, 1928 in Berkeley, CA to Masamoto Nishimura and Kimi Ishihara Nishimura. During World War II he was interned with his family at Topaz, UT. He graduated from Harvard College and attended Harvard Business School. After business school he went to work in his grandfather's wholesale flower business, San Lorenzo Nursery, which brought him to Houston to live in 1955. He remained here for the rest of his life. He was a long time member of River Oaks Rotary Club; a founding member of the board of directors of the Asia Society in Houston: served on the board of the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County and more recently on the board of the Rothko Chapel. He was a member of the Harvard College Club of Houston's Schools and Scholarships Committee and was recognized by Harvard for his many years of interviewing prospective students in the Houston area. Predeceased by his first wife, Marjorie Tokioka Nishimura and his daughter Ellen Kimi Nishimura; he is survived by his second wife of five years Ann Wales; his children Anne Nishimura Morse and her husband Sam and Dwight Ken Nishimura, Jr. and his wife Jane; his step children David Kirkland and wife Anne, Solace Southwick and husband James, Robert Kirkland and wife Alicia; by his beloved grandchildren and step-grandchildren Catherine and Eleanor Morse, Sara, Charles and Emma Nishimura, Diana and Will Kirkland, James and Virginia Southwick and Katherine and Pierce Kirkland; and by his siblings Rhoda Iyoya and husband Nicolas, Jonathan Seibo Nishimura and wife Marie and Joseph Yo Nishimura and wife Joyce. Friends are invited to a memorial visitation from 6 pm until 8 pm Monday evening at Geo. H. Lewis & Son, 1010 Bering Drive. A memorial service will be held at Christ Church Cathedral 1117 Texas Avenue at 2 pm Tuesday, January 11, 2005 with the Very Reverend Joe Reynolds officiating. For those desiring, memorial contributions may be made to the Asia Society Texas: Asia House, 4605 Post Oak Place, Suite 205, Houston, TX 77027 or The Rothko Chapel, 1409 Sul Ross, Houston, TX 77006.