Marian Emiko Hirasuna

Marian Emiko Hirasuna “Emi” passed away July 12, 2025. She was born October 11, 1938, in Tremonton, Utah. She was raised in Hooper, Utah and then moved to California where she met Ryuji “Dick” Hirasuna. Emi and Dick married in 1965 and operated Great Basin Electronics together for 40 years.

Emi may have been little, but she was a fighter. Emi was a breast cancer survivor and beat many odds after being diagnosed with heart failure in 2005. In 2005, Emi was an LVAD (artificial heart) recipient and then ~7 years later a heart transplant recipient.

Emi enjoyed seeing her grandkids, eating lunch with her friends at the Riverdale Senior Center and playing her organ. In her earlier days, she enjoyed camping, fishing, cooking delicious dishes for family parties and especially Sunday ski days with her sons, brother, sister-in-law, nephews and niece.

Emi is survived by her two sons Jeffrey (Soni), Kevin (Justine) and three grandchildren Kyra, Kobe, and Kindra; sisters-in-law Yai Yamashita, Hooper, Utah and Miyoko Tsukuda, San Jose, California. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Dick and brothers Hiroshi and Kiyoshi and brothers-in-law Toshio Hirasuna and Eiji Tsukuda.

Memorial services will be held on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, at 11 a.m. at Ogden Buddhist Church, 155 North Street, Ogden, UT. Friends may visit with family prior to the memorial service from 9:00 to 11 a.m. Interment, Ogden City Cemetery. Cremation entrusted to Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary.

The family would like to express their appreciation to family, friends, Emi’s Riverdale Senior Center lunch buddies, Bosom Buddies (breast cancer survivor support group) and all the employees at Intermountain Medical Heart Failure and Transplant team, CNS Hospice Care and Fairfield Village, for their loving care and support. As well as a special thank you to Emi’s neighbors that watched over her for many years.