Listed as Keaya, Kisayo, Kisio. Kosyo, Kesaya, Keize
Listed as age 30 on her 1912 immigration record with her husband.
[Obitiary] Porterville Recorder - Sat, 30 Mar 1940, pg 1
THREE MORE DIE IN COUNTY IN CAR ACCIDENTS
Japanese Woman Instantly Killed, Highway 99
TULARE, Mar. 30. (VNS)-Death continued to camp on Tulare highways and March, 1940, will go down on highway records as one of the most tragic months in highway accident reports.
The sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth deaths this year were recorded yesterday afternoon and early this morning, making a total of nine for the month and eight for the past week.
A woman was killed and two other persons were hurt, one seriously, in a headon colision between a truck
and a sedan on the highway a half mile south of Tagus ranch at 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Two men died at Visalia and a young Visalian is in a hospital here, as the result of other traffic accidents.
Mrs. Kisio Nozawa, 57, of San Jose, riding in the back seat of the sedan, was instantly killed in the Tagus crash. Her husband, K. Nozawa, 62. riding beside her, escaped injury.
Helen Nozawa, 24, their daughter, and John Akagi, 37, of Los Angeles, were injured.
Akagi, the driver, was in a critical condition with head, chest, internal and hip injuries. Miss Nozawa was not seriously hurt.
Ernest Takamoto, 36, of Monterey driver of the truck, and his helper Mas Kageama, 27, of Monterey, escaped seriously injury, although Kageyama suffered a head cut.
The truck was traveling south and the sedan north when they crashed. The left side of the truck was smashed and the sedan was wrecked.
The cause of the crash was not immediately learned. Takamots said the sedan skidded on the highway and crashed into his truck, although he attempted to swerve out of the way. The flatbed was unloaded.