Hideo Tanaka passed away peacefully on May 13, 2014 at Burnaby General Hospital after recently celebrating his 88th birthday. He is survived by Toshiko, his loving wife of 60 years, and his four children, Janice Kimura (Mike), Larry, Robert (Maria) and Dale (Julia). He has six grandchildren, Leah, Carla, Troy, Mark, Darren and Kyle.

He is also survived by his two youngest brothers, Kiyoshi, living in Langley and Iwao, who lives in Japan. He was predeceased by another younger brother, Shunji. He has many nieces and nephews, most of who are in Japan.

Hideo was born in Vancouver and grew up in a number of small towns in British Columbia. His family moved to Japan in 1946 after the war, but he returned to Canada in 1950 spending six months in Ontario before settling down in Kamloops where he resided for over 50 years.

A memorial service will be held at the Kamloops Buddhist Church on Thursday, May 29, 2014 at 1 pm.