Eleanor A Yoshimura

Eleanor A. (Kumai) Yoshimura, 94, passed away peacefully on May 25th, 2026. Born September 30, 1931, in Honolulu, HI, Eleanor was an alum of McKinley High School’s Class of 1949. Following graduation, she moved to Chicago, where she completed a certificate from Century College of Medical Technology. In Chicago, Eleanor met her future husband, Fred Yoshimura, also from Hawaii. They fell in love when she threw an unexpected snowball at him, and were wed in 1953 in Hawaii. Their marriage lasted 59 happy years, until Fred’s passing in 2013. Fred and Eleanor made their life in Seattle, where Fred worked as an engineer at Boeing and Eleanor had a long career as a lab technician with Dr. William Watts, Dr. Harold King, and Dr. Marc Cordova, and later at Swedish Hospital. They loved to play golf with their friends, attend shows at the Paramount and Fifth Avenue theaters, and go out to their favorite restaurants. Eleanor loved flowers and spent hours at garden stores or tending to her garden, with its view of Lake Washington and Mt. Rainier, and its many rhododendrons and hanging baskets of begonias and fuchsias. She also greatly enjoyed making lovely flower arrangements, the art of which she learned in Japan, where she and Fred lived for 2 years.

Eleanor is survived by her loving family; her daughter Robin Cinamon, son-in-law David, and granddaughter Anna, as well as sisters and brother: Ellen, Kimi, Tom & LaVerne, Lincoln, Emi & Keith, and many loved nieces, nephews and cousins.

Her family expresses heartfelt gratitude to Home Instead Caregiving and Shalom Hospice. Eleanor’s life will be celebrated with close friends and family at the Nordic Museum in Ballard, where she enjoyed many walks among the gardens at the Locks.

Arrangements entrusted to Cook Family Funeral Home of Bainbridge Island, WA.