Anaheim High’s Shigekawa Family

The Shigekawa family is a Japanese American pioneer family from Anaheim.

Kiyoshi Shigekawa was a 1930 graduate of Anaheim High School.

Marlene graduated in 1962 and her older brother and younger sister are also graduates of Anaheim High.

Marlene is project manager of the Poston Community Alliance and a Board Member of the Poston Preservation Project. She is also an author and documentary film maker.

She was born in the Poston, Arizona Japanese American incarceration camp during WWII and her baby bracelet is now a part of the Japanese American collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.