Yasuko ‘Koko’ Felger

She left us the same way she lived, “I do my way.”

Yasuko was a seamstress and sewed a lot of her own fashion pieces as well as quilting and crafting. She was an avid crocheter with a level of expert. She loved her $5.00 scratch off Bingo tickets, enjoyed her sloe gin “high balls” and loved listening to Japanese Enka music. Yasuko cleaned houses for a time and babysat for the Dickey family for a great number of years. Koko worked at Shaker Woods as a member of the clean-up crew. She volunteered for the Caring Hands Food Ministry at the First Church of Christ in East Palestine, but most of all she was a beloved wife and mother and amazing friend to all that had the pleasure of knowing her.

Koko loved talking to and spending time with her friends and family. Her goal was to keep people fed and happy. She was known far and wide for her fried rice, sukiyaki and sushi, iconic staples in the Felger household. She would always say, “If you leave my house hungry, that is your fault”.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Debra Fay (James) Heaton of East Palestine.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Seiji and Satsu Yokoyama of Sendai, Japan and her husband Delmar Felger, whom she married April 10, 1957, at the Tokyo Embassy, and passed July 13, 2016.

A memorial celebration of life will be held 10:30 a.m. Saturday April 8, 2023 at The First Church of Christ in East Palestine. A private burial will take place at a later date at Crest Haven Memorial Gardens in New Waterford.

Linsley-Royal Funeral Home in East Palestine is in charge of arrangements.

4/4/23