Noriko Maeda Rosario was born on February 27, 1935 to Naokichi and Miyoko Maeda in Japan and passed on July 9, 2006 in Alta Loma, Calif.
At the age of 18, Noriko immigrated to the United States as the wife of Joseph Cuddy leaving behind three brothers, two sisters and her father living in Tokyo. She quickly learned the language and customs becoming a US citizen in 1958 after her second child was born. Culturally she adapted to western ways but she always remained Ja panese in her heart with a strong, giving and compassionate spirit. It would be 18 years before she would make her first return trip to Japan to see the family she missed so much. This event would complete the circle for her three children who now have had the opportunity to meet, know and love the family that lived so far away.
Noriko's sojourn to Japan brought her back to the practice of her Buddhist faith. Healed and inspired she returned home to California to be closer to her children and to continue the healing process. She continued her practice in Sacramento with SGI-USA, Soka Gakkai International an American Buddhist Association where she met and married Frank Rosario.
She loved Frank and found tranquility, stability and belonging, sharing her life with him and his grown children Frank, Cindy and Maryann. Her new husband and family blended easily with her own and received acceptance by all. Planning with Frank and later moving to Southern California she continued to practice at the SGI Riverside Community Center where she made many new friends. Her friends and fellow practitioners loved her for her caring and patient ways and respected her for her love of life.
Her inner spiritual strength and will, kept her senses clear and aware of her passing life to the moment her spirit ascended and joined those love ones that passed before her. Noriko loved all living things. She loved and cared for her children, grandchildren and for her late husband, Frank Rosario, who passed in 2000 and for all her extended family. She said, she was so grateful to have been blessed with three children she loved and cared for so much.
Noriko is survived by her two sisters, Fusako Ohta and Tomoko Noda; her three children Stephen, Carolyn and Robert; her grandchildren April, Rhiannon, Nicole, Danny, Christy, Kyle and Danielle and her extended family who she loved very much. She was preceded in death by her four brothers Takehiko, Toshihiko, Masahiko and Shigehiko and by her granddaughter Angela.
At the age of 18, Noriko immigrated to the United States as the wife of Joseph Cuddy leaving behind three brothers, two sisters and her father living in Tokyo. She quickly learned the language and customs becoming a US citizen in 1958 after her second child was born. Culturally she adapted to western ways but she always remained Ja panese in her heart with a strong, giving and compassionate spirit. It would be 18 years before she would make her first return trip to Japan to see the family she missed so much. This event would complete the circle for her three children who now have had the opportunity to meet, know and love the family that lived so far away.
Noriko's sojourn to Japan brought her back to the practice of her Buddhist faith. Healed and inspired she returned home to California to be closer to her children and to continue the healing process. She continued her practice in Sacramento with SGI-USA, Soka Gakkai International an American Buddhist Association where she met and married Frank Rosario.
She loved Frank and found tranquility, stability and belonging, sharing her life with him and his grown children Frank, Cindy and Maryann. Her new husband and family blended easily with her own and received acceptance by all. Planning with Frank and later moving to Southern California she continued to practice at the SGI Riverside Community Center where she made many new friends. Her friends and fellow practitioners loved her for her caring and patient ways and respected her for her love of life.
Her inner spiritual strength and will, kept her senses clear and aware of her passing life to the moment her spirit ascended and joined those love ones that passed before her. Noriko loved all living things. She loved and cared for her children, grandchildren and for her late husband, Frank Rosario, who passed in 2000 and for all her extended family. She said, she was so grateful to have been blessed with three children she loved and cared for so much.
Noriko is survived by her two sisters, Fusako Ohta and Tomoko Noda; her three children Stephen, Carolyn and Robert; her grandchildren April, Rhiannon, Nicole, Danny, Christy, Kyle and Danielle and her extended family who she loved very much. She was preceded in death by her four brothers Takehiko, Toshihiko, Masahiko and Shigehiko and by her granddaughter Angela.
Noriko Maeda Rosario was born on February 27, 1935 to Naokichi and Miyoko Maeda in Japan and passed on July 9, 2006 in Alta Loma, Calif.
At the age of 18, Noriko immigrated to the United States as the wife of Joseph Cuddy leaving behind three brothers, two sisters and her father living in Tokyo. She quickly learned the language and customs becoming a US citizen in 1958 after her second child was born. Culturally she adapted to western ways but she always remained Ja panese in her heart with a strong, giving and compassionate spirit. It would be 18 years before she would make her first return trip to Japan to see the family she missed so much. This event would complete the circle for her three children who now have had the opportunity to meet, know and love the family that lived so far away.
Noriko's sojourn to Japan brought her back to the practice of her Buddhist faith. Healed and inspired she returned home to California to be closer to her children and to continue the healing process. She continued her practice in Sacramento with SGI-USA, Soka Gakkai International an American Buddhist Association where she met and married Frank Rosario.
She loved Frank and found tranquility, stability and belonging, sharing her life with him and his grown children Frank, Cindy and Maryann. Her new husband and family blended easily with her own and received acceptance by all. Planning with Frank and later moving to Southern California she continued to practice at the SGI Riverside Community Center where she made many new friends. Her friends and fellow practitioners loved her for her caring and patient ways and respected her for her love of life.
Her inner spiritual strength and will, kept her senses clear and aware of her passing life to the moment her spirit ascended and joined those love ones that passed before her. Noriko loved all living things. She loved and cared for her children, grandchildren and for her late husband, Frank Rosario, who passed in 2000 and for all her extended family. She said, she was so grateful to have been blessed with three children she loved and cared for so much.
Noriko is survived by her two sisters, Fusako Ohta and Tomoko Noda; her three children Stephen, Carolyn and Robert; her grandchildren April, Rhiannon, Nicole, Danny, Christy, Kyle and Danielle and her extended family who she loved very much. She was preceded in death by her four brothers Takehiko, Toshihiko, Masahiko and Shigehiko and by her granddaughter Angela.
At the age of 18, Noriko immigrated to the United States as the wife of Joseph Cuddy leaving behind three brothers, two sisters and her father living in Tokyo. She quickly learned the language and customs becoming a US citizen in 1958 after her second child was born. Culturally she adapted to western ways but she always remained Ja panese in her heart with a strong, giving and compassionate spirit. It would be 18 years before she would make her first return trip to Japan to see the family she missed so much. This event would complete the circle for her three children who now have had the opportunity to meet, know and love the family that lived so far away.
Noriko's sojourn to Japan brought her back to the practice of her Buddhist faith. Healed and inspired she returned home to California to be closer to her children and to continue the healing process. She continued her practice in Sacramento with SGI-USA, Soka Gakkai International an American Buddhist Association where she met and married Frank Rosario.
She loved Frank and found tranquility, stability and belonging, sharing her life with him and his grown children Frank, Cindy and Maryann. Her new husband and family blended easily with her own and received acceptance by all. Planning with Frank and later moving to Southern California she continued to practice at the SGI Riverside Community Center where she made many new friends. Her friends and fellow practitioners loved her for her caring and patient ways and respected her for her love of life.
Her inner spiritual strength and will, kept her senses clear and aware of her passing life to the moment her spirit ascended and joined those love ones that passed before her. Noriko loved all living things. She loved and cared for her children, grandchildren and for her late husband, Frank Rosario, who passed in 2000 and for all her extended family. She said, she was so grateful to have been blessed with three children she loved and cared for so much.
Noriko is survived by her two sisters, Fusako Ohta and Tomoko Noda; her three children Stephen, Carolyn and Robert; her grandchildren April, Rhiannon, Nicole, Danny, Christy, Kyle and Danielle and her extended family who she loved very much. She was preceded in death by her four brothers Takehiko, Toshihiko, Masahiko and Shigehiko and by her granddaughter Angela.
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