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Toshi-Aline Ohta Seeger, wife of folk music icon Pete Seeger, passed away overnight on Tuesday, July 9th. She was a mother, an organizer, an activist and filmmaker
and an essential part of all of her husbands work. She was 91.
As much as Pete is a consummate dreamer and optimist, Toshi had a strength and brilliance that was at least his equal. Theres was a true partnership. Without Toshis counsel and support, and always outspoken and direct opinions, its clear to anyone who ever met these two remarkable people that, without Toshi, Pete would never have had the foundation and freedom to do the work that made him so legendary.
But Toshi, despite her profound wisdom, strength, morality and courage, was also extremely modest and self-effacing. Often rebuffing attention paid to her, and always doing a loving job at making sure that Pete was always grounded and clear about how his work, his missions, were always bigger than a single man or woman.
Toshi was born in Munich, Germany, to an American mother and a Japanese father. Her parents brought her to the U.S. when she was 6 months old, as soon as it became legal for the two to be married here. They found an apartment in New York City, where her father found work as the buildings caretaker.
http://singout.org/2013/07/10/toshi-seeger-passes/
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)So few of the old greats left.....
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)senseandsensibility
(17,066 posts)Very interesting article at the link. RIP, Toshi.
grntuscarora
(1,249 posts)What a loss for us all.
malaise
(269,063 posts)R.I.P. Toshi