Yaoka Van Horn

A private service will be held later for Yaoka Van Horn of Cottage Grove, who died Dec. 22 of pancreatic cancer at age 79.

She was born March 26, 1930, in Tokyo to Kenjiro and Kiku Matsubaro Suzuki. She married Neil Van Horn in 1957 in Tokyo.

She earned a degree from Showa University in Tokyo. She was a data processing supervisor for Acacia Life Insurance, retiring in 1987 after more than 20 years with the company.

Survivors include her husband and a sibling, Teruko Yamaguchi of Tokyo.

Arrangements by Andreason’s Cremation & Burial Service in Springfield. Remembrances to Sacred Heart Hospice.

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