AID, HEARING

Description: .1) CASE. ABOVE DIMENSIONS. RECTANGULAR BLACK CRUSHED VELVET CASE WITH SPRING LOADED HINGED LID. "SONY" LABEL IS ON BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER OF LID. INSIDE LID IS WHITE NYLON COVERING WHICH READS "SONY TRANSIEAR TE-8". BOTTOM OF CASE HAS RED CRUSHED VELVET FRAME FOR AID AND OTHER PIECES. .2) HEARING AID. BROWN CRESCENT SHAPED PLASTIC DEVICE WITH RUBBER TUBE AND MOLDED EAR PIECE ATTACHED TO IT. "SONY JAPAN" IS RAISED ON SIDE OF DEVICE AND "TE-234" IS STAMPED IN BLACK INK ON INSIDE EDGE. .3) TUBE. 4.0CM X 0.3CM MILKY RUBBER TUBE. .4) TUBE. 3.2CM X 0.3CM MILKY RUBBER TUBE. .5) PLUG. 1.1CM X 0.9CM BROWN RUBBER PLUG SHAPED LIKE A MUSHROOM. .6) PLUG. 1.5CM X 0.9CM BROWN RUBBER PLUG, HOUR GLASS SHAPE. .7) PLUG. IDENTICAL TO .6. .8) PLUG. IDENTICAL TO .6, EXCEPT NARROWER AROUND MIDDLE.

History: HEARING AID BELONGED TO DONOR'S MOTHER, LOIS NAKAYAMA, WHO BEGAN TO LOSE HER HEARING ABOUT MID-LIFE. LOIS NAKAYAMA (NEE MASUI YAO) WAS A FROM JAPAN AND A MISSIONARY TO THE JAPANESE COMMUNITY IN VANCOUVER IN THE 1920'S. SHE MET AND MARRIED G.G. NAKAYAMA IN 1926. REV. NAKAYAMA, AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO COALDALE IN 1945 AFTER BEING RELOCATED FROM VANCOUVER IN 1942 TO SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. AT COALDALE HE FOUNDED THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION WHERE HE WAS RECTOR FROM 1945 TO 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.