Funeral Details for Dharma Friend Helen Sasaki
The funeral for Dharma Friend Helen Sasaki has been announced to take place at the Mountain View Buddhist Temple. The date is Sunday, June 22, at 2 p.m. Pacific Time. Her husband, the late Rev. LaVerne Sasaki, was the resident minister for Mountain View for many years.
Officiating at the service will be BTSD former minister, Rev. Yushi Mukojima.
Interested parties can also join the funeral via Zoom. Please reach out to the Temple for the login information.
Though she lived in northern California, Helen Sasaki frequently attended Sunday services here to visit children and grandchildren and was familiar to many of our Sangha members. Until 2023 she and her husband, the late Rev. LaVerne Sasaki, would visit. After her husband died, she would still visit us, often with one of her grown children.
We welcome the Sangha to read her obituary here.
Two of her grown children, Brian Sasaki and Sharon Sasaki, are very active in our Sangha.
Sharon, a Certified Minister’s Assistant, who is preparing for Tokudo ordination, spoke movingly of her mother at our May 25 Service. Remarkably, Sharon had learned of her mother’s death that very morning, and yet continued with her message because, she said, that was what her mother would have wanted her to do.
Watch Sharon speak about her mother at the May 27 service. Or watch Sharon’s full Dharma message here. You can also stream that service from the beginning here.
- Bill Teague, Web Editor