Tandra Gale Nakamoto
Obituary
Tandra Gale Nakamoto died at her home with her husband at her side on April 23 after a more than three-and-a-half-year battle with pancreatic cancer.
Mrs. Nakamoto was born in Santa Cruz and raised in Watsonville on Hughes Road. She also spent her teen years living with her cousin Karen and "Daddy" Dave Hagler in Atascadero. She returned to Watsonville where she would marry and have a son, Dennis "Todd" Wilson II.
She spent her 20s and 30s raising her son as a single mom. She worked her whole life in the hospitality industry as a bartender. She started at the old Resetar Bar, later working at the Villager Bar, Garbini's Bar and the Orchid Grill. She would later meet, and in 1998 marry the love of her life Steven Nakamoto, her husband of 24 years.
She was preceded in death by her parents Billie Laverne Johnson and Penton Wayne Ball. She is survived by her husband, Steven Nakamoto; son, Todd (Yvette) Wilson; stepsons, Michael (Shaneil) Nakamoto and James (Jennifer) Nakamoto; and five granddaughters.
Ave Maria Memorial Chapel was entrusted with the arrangements.
Published in The Pajaronian · May 6, 2022