Yaeko Cornett passed away peacefully the morning of December 30, 2015. Yaeko was born in Kanda, Tokyo, Japan. She was born the youngest daughter of ten children, five girls and five boys, to Ryu Saito and Zenroku Hokari. She attended Baptist School as a young girl. She worked for a jeweler in the very fashionable Ginza district of Tokyo after WWII. She met and married her husband, John, while he was stationed in Japan with the Air Force, and had two daughters. She was a wonderful wife and mother. She spent time taking great care of her family. She also volunteered, with her husband, to assist in the intake of Vietnamese refugees in the 1970's. She was very good at teaching friends, and most of all, her daughters, about the Japanese culture. She made beautiful, hand-sewn costumes for Japanese dolls that her family proudly displayed in their house. She also cooked both Japanese and American dishes, and taught her daughters how to cook. She had a lovely sense of humor, effervescent personality, and smile. She will be deeply missed by her daughters, Barbara Seale, and Jean Hervey, her granddaughter, Kylie Haun, her sons-in-law, Jason Seale, and Glen Hervey, along with extended family, and friends, in the U.S. and Japan. A private memorial service will be held on San Francisco Bay, on February 20, 2016. There she will join her husband, John. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that any donations be made to the Alzheimer's Association ( http://www.alz.org ).