Calvary Storytellers: Louise Takeuchi

Happy 100th Birthday, Louise! Welcome to Calvary Storytellers, our new oral history project featuring our members and friends telling their life stories in their own words. This first edition is narrated by Calvary’s newest centenarian – Louise Takeuchi. Louise was just a teenager when she and her family were sent from their home in California to Japanese internment camps in Arkansas. In typical Louise fashion, her story is one of hope and resilience as she reminisces how the local Quakers were the ones who sponsored her to leave the camp at the end of the war and how she eventually made her way to Calvary, after a brief visit to Glide Methodist Church in the Tenderloin.