Tomiko Hood, 90, passed away Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018, after a 20-year year battle with Alzheimer’s disease at home with her husband at her side.
She was born in Fukushima, Japan, to Shinkichi and Nao Konno. She was the oldest of her siblings and was required at age 13 to work in a thread factory making military uniforms in Tokyo, Japan.
She remembered several of her friends dying in bombing raids on the factory during World War II. Tomiko became a licensed handicraft instructor in Tokyo, Japan, in 1975. She taught flower arranging and cake decorating at several Armed Forces service clubs and won several awards for her handicraft skills. During the many military assignments with her husband and after his retirement, her main focus was on the care and welfare of their two children until both graduated from college.
Tomiko enjoyed handcrafts, gardening, bowling and travel with her husband and physical health. She attended a local spa where she met many friends. She had been a resident of the Peninsula since 1978 and of Seaford since 1994. She has been a member of Fort Eustis Regimental Memorial Chapel since 1998.
Survivors include her husband, Don Hood of Seaford; son, Mark, and his wife, Sherry, of San Francisco, California; daughter, Jeannie Barrera of Sierra Vista, Arizona; granddaughters, Raquel Barrera of Hays, and Isabelle Barrera of Sierra Vista, Arizona; great-grandson, Kaleb L. Coates; four brothers, Shinichi, Shinji, Shingo and Shijiro; three sisters, Yaiko, Eiko and Yukiko, all of Tokyo, Japan; sisters-in-law, Carol Hood of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Joyce Hood of Jeffersonville, Indiana; and many nieces and nephews.
The family would like to thank Riverside Adult Day Care on Old Denbigh Blvd. for their care and compassion during her six-year stay there.
The family will receive friends from 4 to 6 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 5, at Amory Funeral Home. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 6, at Amory Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be held at alter date in Arlington National Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to a local Alzheimer’s Association.
