Nobu Ruth Kubo Schildhauer

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Nobu Ruth Kubo Schildhauer died of frontotemporal dementia on 29 August 2009, at

the age of 93 in her home in Waikiki, Hawaii, with her family beside her. She was
born in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan, to Hisaji and Toyo Kubo. The family later moved to
Tokyo where she spent her formative years.

She studied English literature at Tokyo Joshi Daigaku (Tokyo Women's University).
Nobu was a member of a group of English-speaking Japanese university students who
went to the United States on a trip for peace before the outbreak of World War II in
the Pacific. In 1940 she married Alan Masaru Suzuki, the son of Daisetz Teitaro
Suzuki and Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki. They had a daughter and spent the War
time years in Shanghai, returning to Tokyo in1946. Nobu and Alan Masaru were later
divorced.

She married Hugo Paul Schildhauer in Tokyo in 1950, and, with her daughter,
immigrated to the United States, where she had a son and resided the rest of her life.
Hugo Paul remained her devoted companion and caretaker throughout her illness,
allowing her to die peacefully at home.

In Japan, she leaves behind three sisters, Mieko Takagi, Yuriko Tanaka, Tomoko
Kubo, and was pre-deceased by a sister, Machiko Kubo. In the United States, she
leaves her husband of 59 years, Hugo Paul Schildhauer, son Mark Schildhauer and
wife Joyce, daughter Junko Davis and husband David. She also leaves five
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother, sister, teacher, and friend to many.
Her family honors her long, gracious, well-lived rich life.

A private family internment will take place at a later date in Hawaii and Japan.

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