Andrews, Emery E., 1894-1976

Minister, Japanese Baptist Church, Seattle, Wash.

Born in Nebraska in 1894, Emery Andrews grew up in California and in 1919 settled in Seattle with his family. Andrews earned sociology and education degrees from the University of Washington, and in 1929 he became pastor of the Japanese Baptist Church of Seattle. With the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, Rev. Andrews began making almost daily visits to Camp Harmony Assembly Center in Puyallup, Washington. When the inmates were transferred to the Minidoka Relocation Center in Hunt, Idaho, in 1942, Rev. Andrews moved his family to a nearby town so that he could continue to minister to the Japanese. In 1945 he and his family returned to Seattle; the Japanese Baptist Church was reopened in 1946. Rev. Andrews spent several summers as a volunteer for Houses for Hiroshima, an organization formed by pacifist Floyd Schmoe to build homes for atomic bomb survivors in Japan. Rev. Andrews retired from the Japanese Baptist Church in 1959 and died in Seattle in 1976.

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