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LDS Church News
Week ending June 16, 1973
Pres. Kotaro Koizumi, first counselor in the Pearl Harbor West Stakepresidency, has been called by the First Presidency to preside over the Japan East Mission with headquarters in Sapporo, Japan. He succeeds Pres. Russell N. Horiuchi. Pres. Koizumi, who heads his own architectural firm in the Honolulu area, was born in Laie, Nov. 1, 1931, a son of Gensaku and Sono Koizumi. He married Grace Kiyoko Kaneshige of Wahiawa, Oahu, in the Hawaii Temple on May 15, 1964, and they have two children. He received his B.A. in architecture from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. He has served as a ward clerk, stake YMMIA superintendent, bishop, high councilor and in the stake presidency. Mrs. Koizumi was born Jan. 31, 1935 in Honolulu, to Takuzo and Tomeyo Harano Kaneshige. She has served as YWMIA age group counselor in her ward, and at present is stake YWMIA secretary. She has been secretary to the president of a savings and loan association for the past 14 years, and has served in the same capacity for the stake patriarch for the same length of time.
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