Vidor Methodist Church
The Kishis became involved in Vidor Methodist Church while Robert Johnson was choir director. He personally invited Taro to come join the chancel choir because they desperately needed a tenor. After this invitation, the couple decided to move churches from Roberts Avenue Church to this church.
Taro also served on the Finance Committee when the parsonage was built. In 19__, he was the delegate to the Houston Conference; and in 1976, president of Methodist Men. He cooked many a chop suey dinner or served Aunt Liz's special chicken 'n dumplings to attract attendance to the meetings.
There were many close, dear friends in the Vidor Church family: Alma Polk (Mrs. John Polk) and Taro who would play violin duets, Roberta Jones who once a week would come over to play dominoes, and Ruby Moreland who every year would help the Kishis chop up cabbage with sharp knives without any food processors or veggimatics and make HUGE batches of chow-chow and sauerkraut. Anna & Frank Lee and the Kishis children have been very close through the decades.
Text from a presentation by Ida Hirasaki Bush to the Methodist Church in Vidor.