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The Honolulu Advertiser
Updated at 3:16 p.m., Thursday, March 5, 2009

TRAGIC MEMORIAL
Asa Yamashita services scheduled, fund established to help family

Advertiser Staff

Hawaii news photo - The Honolulu Advertiser

Flowers, stuffed toys and food have been placed on the bench at the Ewa Town Center where Asa Yamashita was attacked last Friday.

NORMAN SHAPIRO | The Honolulu Advertiser

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Funeral services for slain Waianae High School teacher Asa Yamashita have been scheduled for Wednesday, March 11, at Nuuanu Memorial Park & Morturary, 2233 Nuuanu Ave.

A fund has been established to help the Yamashita family. The account is called The Friends of Asa Yamashita.

Donations can be made at any American Savings Bank.

Yamashita, an English teacher who was Waianae High's literacy coordinator, was stabbed to death last week as she sat on a bench at the Ewa Town Center. She was instrumental in creating the school's Sustained Silent Reading Library, and was affectionately known on campus as the Book Lady. She was 43.

Tittleman Fauatea, 25, has been charged with second-degree murder in the attack on Yamashita.

Yamashita is survived by her husband, Bryan; daughters, Katherine "Katie" and Victoria "Tori"; father, Takeo "Joe" Shimabukuro; sisters, Jan, Rae and Lee Shimabukuro; hanai brother, Keith Z. Kaneshiro.

Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Casual attire.

A private inurnment is planned.