Memorial services for Aiko Ishii Denette will be 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, January 3, 2018 in Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Deacon Tom Biles officiating.

Placement of cremated remains will follow in Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin.

Aiko Ishii Denette, age 87, died Saturday, December 23, 2017 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.  She was born May 29, 1930 in Tokyo, Japan to Sakuji and Mine (Imai) Ishii.  She received her education in Japan and while in Japan attended a school for flower arrangement, receiving a Certificate of Completion.  She married Charles Edward Denette on October 28, 1960.  He preceded her in death on May 9, 2009.

Aiko became a U.S. citizen in 1964.  She was a wife, homemaker and mother.  When her children were grown she got a job with the Fort Sill BOQ, retiring in April 2000.  During her employment she was recognized with several Achievement awards.

She enjoyed arts and crafts.  When her children were young she would sew clothing and toys for them.  She did beading, crochet and macramé.  She enjoyed working in her various flower and vegetable gardens and being outdoors.  She was a participant in the Japanese club of Lawton in the 1970's.  She would attend the monthly dinners with friends.  She enjoyed the camaraderie with her classmates in water aerobics at the YMCA.  When her grandchildren were babies she was a favorite Obachan (grandmother).  She would make time to play with them outside in the dirt, swimming in a pool and sword fighting.

She is survived by four children and their families, Mary Pille and husband Philippe and their daughters, Rachael, Katherine and Misty Pille, Glenpool, Oklahoma; Philias Denette and wife Michelle and their sons, Nicholas and Alexander and their daughter, Anna Claire, Waveland, Mississippi; Theresa Whittaker and husband David and their son, Gavin, Burkburnett, Texas; and Michael Denette and wife Gina and their daughter, Isabella and sons Joey Decker and Andrew Crawford, Oklahoma City; her great granddaughter, Braelynn Decker; and her sisters, Misako Nashimoto, Niigatashi, Japan and Toshiko Ishii, Tokyo, Japan.

Her parents and two brothers, Mitsuo Ishii and Keisuke Ishii, preceded her in death.