Roy Nishiguchi

The Nishiguchi family lived in Gerlach the late 1930's and 1940's.

• Sam M. Nishiguchi b. 1884 in Japan
• Yeano Nishiguchi b. 1893 in Japan
• Mary Nishiguchi b. 1915
• Roy Nishiguchi b. 1916 in Utah
  • Find A Grave "He moved to Gerlach, Nev., where he resided until entering the service in 1941."
• Authur Nishiguchi b. 1920
• Ida Nishiguchi b. 1923
• Bessie Nishiguchi b. 1924
• Grace Nishiguchi b. 1926
• Joy Nishiguchi b. 1928
• Elaine Nishiguchi b. 1936 in Utah

Claude "Chad" Chadwell and Art Nishiguchi, circa 1939. Gerlach Baseball. (Courtesy Gary B. Horton)

External Resources

• Bombing practice at Pyramid ... and a World War II-era family suffers from UNR's Nevada Silver & Blue: Tell Me How Nevada Was, From the files of the University of Nevada Oral History Program. A first person account of being of Japanese descent during WWII in Gerlach. Spring 2007. Includes a picture of Roy Nishiguchi.

• Roy Nishiguchi's oral history of Gerlach duing WWII