Harry Hasegawa's Obituary
Harry T. Hasegawa died on September 2, 2024, a week before his 90th birthday. He was born in Hana, Maui, Hawaii in 1934 to Toshimasa Hasegawa and Shizuko Hasegawa (Hirose). Harry was the oldest of four sons, and they all worked in the family business, the Hasegawa General Store. He attended Hana Elementary School and Mid-Pacific Institute on Oahu for high school, where he played third base on the baseball team, was active in student government, and made life-long friends at Mid-Pacific Institute.
He matriculated at the University of Colorado Boulder and majored in business. After graduating, he returned to Hana to join his parents in the family business, the Hasegawa General Store. This Maui institution was started in 1910 by Harry's grandfather and grand uncle who were immigrant sugar plantation workers from Southern Japan. On the pretext of attending refrigeration school on Oahu, he started wooing Ewa Plantation school teacher Rosalina Anita "Nita" Nebrija. Before the peacetime draft of the 1950s found Har
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