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Original Call: LDS Church News
Week ending February 7, 1981
Sam K. Shimabukuro, 55, is a high councilor in the Honolulu Hawaii West Stake.
He was born in Waipahu, Hawaii, a son of Kame and Ushi Nakasone Shimabukuro. He married Amy Hirose Kurosawa Oct. 30, 1957 in Tokyo, Japan. Their only child died in 1974. They are members of the Honolulu Aliamanu Ward.
Pres. Shimabukuro received a bachelor's degree from the University of Hawaii. He currently works for the Hawaii state labor department. His Church service has included assignments as bishop, seventies quorum president and Sunday School president. From 1954-1957 he filled a full-time mission to the Northern Far East Mission.
Sister Shimabukuro was born in Maebashi, Japan, a daughter of Takeji and Kaneko Hirose Kurosawa. She is currently serving as a Primary teacher. She has served as Young Women secretary, Relief Society teacher, and as an ordinance worker in the Hawaii Temple.
© 2001 Deseret News Publishing Co.
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1985 Submitted by Pratt Hokanson:
Ensign, Apr. 1985, p. 80
Sam K. Shimabukuro, of Honolulu, Hawaii, has been called by the First Presidency to serve as president of the Tokyo Temple. He succeeds Elder Adney Y. Komatsu of the First Quorum of the Seventy. Prior to his call, President Shimabukuro had been serving as a counselor to Elder Komatsu in the Tokyo Temple presidency.
1992
On September 1, 1992, the Asia North Area Presidency was created to administer affairs
in Japan and Korea. Elder W. Eugene Hansen was the first Area President. His counselors were Elder Han In Sang, from Korea, and Elder Sam K. Shimabukuro, from Hawaii.
1996
Ensign, Nov. 1996
Released from the Second Quorum of the Seventy after completion of five or more years of service was Sam K. Shimabukuro.
2007
The picture below was taken by Dave Miller on a 2007 visit to Hawaii. Pres. and Sister Shimabukuro came to Salt Lake for a reunion held April 4, 2008.
2015
President Shimabukuro passed away October 8, 2015. Here are links to articles in Wikipedia and in Church News. |
