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Mae Fujie (Taniguchi) Kajioka (92) passed away peacefully on January 4, 2021. She is survived by her sons, Dwight, Keith (Jennifer) and Miles (Denise); eight grandchildren, Toshio, Mariko (Raymond) Gong, Christopher (Jolie), Andrew (Kim), Megan (Jared) Hartsfield, Alex, Trisha, and Kelsey; five great-grandchildren and many relatives. She was preceded in death by her husband, Harry (2019) and son, Douglas (2017). She was born in Turlock on May 1, 1928 and raised in Cortez until World War II broke out. Due to her Japanese ancestry, she was sent with her family to the Amache Internment Camp in Colorado where she graduated high school. She attended the Healds Business College in San Francisco and returned to Cortez to work as a bookkeeper. She married Harry Kajioka in 1951 and lived for the next 65 years in Ballico where they raised their four sons and worked on their farm, growing peaches, almonds and wine grapes. She also volunteered at the local schools, Cortez Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), Buddhist Church, Boy Scouts and MedicAlert Foundation. She will always be remembered as kind, hard-working, a creative crafter, a word search and solitaire enthusiast, loving mother and grandmother, and devoted wife. Her gentle presence will be missed. A private graveside service will be held for her immediate family at Turlock Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers/customary gifts, donations may be made on her behalf to Stockton Buddhist Church (buddhistchurchofstockton.org) or Community Hospice Foundation (give.hospiceheart.org).

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Mae Fujie (Taniguchi) Kajioka

May 1, 1928 - January 4, 2021