BRIEF: Former state senator Wadsworth Yee dead at 90 [The Honolulu Star-Advertiser]

May 14--Wadsworth Y.H. Yee, a former state senator and one of the founders of Grand Pacific Life Insurance Company, died May 8. He was 90.

Yee, of Kaneohe, also was an attorney and Army veteran.

He is survived by his wife, Aileen S. Kitaoka-Yee; sons Alan, Randall and Brian; stepsons Barney and Reid Tokujo; stepdaughter Carrie Kitashima; stepbrother Thomas Leong; 17 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be at 10 a.m.May 21 at Nuuanu Memorial Park & Mortuary, with services at 11:30 a.m. There will be a private inurnment. Aloha attire.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the Alzheimer Association or the Boys & Girls Club of Honolulu.

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