Funeral services for Aiko Nishihira Pickett, 90, of Humble, Texas will be held at 12:00pm, Tuesday, May 24, 2022 Kingwood Funeral Home, 22800 Hwy 59, Kingwood, Texas. Interment will be held at 1:30pm, at Houston National Cemetery, 10410 Veterans Memorial Dr., Houston, Texas.
The family will welcome friends from 5:00-7:00pm, Monday, May 23, 2022 and also an hour before service time on May 24, 2022 at Kingwood Funeral Home.
Aiko passed away on May 13, 2022 in Houston, Texas. She was born in Taiwan (Formosa) on January 4, 1932 and moved to Okinawa with her family at an early age. She worked seven years at Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa, Japan and met the love of her life, Bob while he was on assignment at the base. They were married in 1958. She crossed the Pacific Ocean 9 times in her lifetime and lived in 5 different United States throughout her husband’s military career.
Aiko was a kindergarten teacher and a music teacher, with a love of semi classical music that had broad, popular appeal. She loved to cook American and Japanese cuisine and enjoyed entertaining family and friends with wonderful gourmet dishes to expand everyone’s palette of food. Aiko was also an amazing apparel designer ... artistic creation and design, cutting out patterns, selecting fabrics, sewing and hand stitching which resulted in couture garments that many could not believe she had made. She had a tremendous love of flowers and gardening ... working endless hours in the yard trimming and nurturing beautiful shrubs and flowers. She adored dogs ... she had a gift for teaching obedience. When the dogs went outside and returned, they stopped at the doorway to get their feet cleaned and to pass inspection before frolicking back indoors. She also taught them how to perform many tricks ... like kneeling, rolling over, raising their paws for you to shake them and the list goes on and on. I can still hear her talking softly to them and then laughing and hugging them after they performed.
Aiko was a Breast Cancer Survivor, but, in the end, Alzheimer’s took her life. A shared fond memory from her sister-in-law ...“What I remember most was the first time I met Aiko. She had traveled across the world to meet her new family and with her the entire trip was a ‘straw turtle purse with a beautiful fabric lining’ that she bought for me. I was very young and was so excited to not only meet her; but could not believe she brought me something and had gone to so much trouble to carry it on planes, buses, and cars to get it to me. I treasured it for many years, but more importantly I treasured the person that gave it to me. And some 60+ years later that purse and especially Aiko are still in my memory as if it were only yesterday.”
She is survived by husband of 64 years, Robert (Bob) H. Pickett, Jr.; brother-in-law, Arthur G. Pickett of Orange; sister-in-Law, Betty P. Parsons and husband Loren of Bryan-College Station; niece, Ashley P. Coggins and husband Jason of Houston; great-nephew, Sam C. Coggins of Houston; five nephews in Japan; two nieces in Japan; along with numerous other relatives and friends. She is preceded in death by her daughter, Helen Pickett who passed away at birth; parents in Japan; one sister in Japan; and one brother in Japan.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.kingwoodfuneralhome.com for the Pickett family.
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