She was born Helen Bingo on April 7, 1932, in Torrance, California. She and her family were interned in a makeshift camp at the Santa Anita racetrack near Los Angeles at the start of World War II.
Her niece Joyce Naka said "They slept in horse stalls. It was filthy and smelled horrible."
From Santa Anita, she and her family were sent to an internment camp in Jerome, Arkansas, and later one in Tulelake, California.
After the war her family moved to Chicago on the South Side. Later they settled on the North Side and she attended Tuley High School before graduating from Waller High School, now Lincoln Park High School.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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