Anne Yoshie Okada Ayala

Anne Yoshie Okada Ayala - Passed away peacefully in Petaluma, CA. on December 20, 2012. Anne was born September 18, 1941 in Waimea, Kauai, HI, to Ichiro Okada and Elsie Ogata Okada. During elementary and high school, she worked in the Okada Store in Waimea, which was managed by her parents, and as a library aide in the public and school libraries. After high school, she earned a BA in Spanish and Literature from Arizona State University, and later attended graduate school at the University of Illinois, and University of California UCLA. In 1964, Anne volunteered for the U.S. Peace Corps, traveling to Ecuador as part of a secondary and university education group. She taught English to engineering students and was at the time the only woman teacher at Quitoâ??s Escuela Polité