No. 731 Aselika T. Lolohea, 2009

File — Box: 72, Folder: 4

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Aselika Lolohea was born and raised in Tonga. She remembers corporal punishment in school, and how she liked attending Liahona High School because there was no more corporal punishment. She discusses her youth in Tonga in the 1950s and 1960s. She graduated Liahona High in 1970, and served an LDS mission all over the Tonga area from 1971 to 1972. She recalls not being allowed to speak Tongan at Liahona. In 1976 Ms. Lolohea moved to the United States, because a Tongan-American family her mother had helped agreed to repay her kindness by bringing her children back with them. Ms. Lolohea lived in San Mateo, California, at first, and worked as a live-in assistant for an older woman. She got married in 1978 to a man she had met at a young adult conference in Tonga, and subsequently lived in both Utah and California. Ms. Lolohea brought her mother to the US not long after her marriage.
Project: Pacific Islanders.
Interviewer: Savani Aupiu.

Dates

2009

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.