Misao Kume Harada

Misao Kume Harada

Misao Kume Harada, 87, passed away at Kalispell Regional Hospital in Kalispell, Mont., on Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010.

Misao was born June 19, 1923, in Wolf Point, Mont., to Magoshiro Kume and Hatsuye Nakagawa.

She attended schools in Williston, N.D. and graduated from Escondido High School in California in 1941.

In 1942, during World War II, Misao and her sister, Yoshina (Flossie), were placed in a Japanese internment camp in Poston Ariz., and were there for three years. She was allowed to leave the camp early if she moved away from the coast, so she moved back to North Dakota....