{"id":1035,"date":"2022-11-30T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:28:36","slug":"tats-matsuoka-59-dvm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/tats-matsuoka-59-dvm\/","title":{"rendered":"Tats Matsuoka, &#8217;59 DVM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 24, 1928 &#8211; November 30, 2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Tats Matsuoka passed away on November 30, 2022. Born August 24, 1928 to Takeo \u201cTom\u201d and Kazue \u201cKaz\u201d in Bellevue, WA. A graduate of Chinook, MT High School in 1946, he went on to obtain a BS from the University of Minnesota followed by a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Washington State University. An Army veteran, he taught at Montana State University before relocating to Greenfield, IN where he worked for Eli Lilly &amp; Co. for 30 years. Tats is survived by his wife of 58 years, Donna; children Jeff (Kim), Kim Sturgeon, and Teri Brown (Chris); grandchildren Morgan, Laura, Rylie, Kelly, and Ethan; and his beloved dog, Baxter. He is preceded in death by his son-in-law, Todd Sturgeon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitation will be held at St. James Lutheran Church, where he was a charter member, in Greenfield, IN on Sunday, December 4th from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. with a service to immediately follow. Officiating the service will be Dr. Richard Blue. A private burial service will be held at a future date. In lieu of flowers please make donations to St. James Lutheran Church or Madison County Humane Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 24, 1928 &#8211; November 30, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10199,"featured_media":1036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[34],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}