Wednesday, December 2, 1998

• Loyal Ekholm
  a funeral director in San Mateo, California who has helped families arrange the international transfer of family remains.

• Mike Fleming
  a spokesman for the U.S. Customs Service in Los Angeles, who explained agency policies on the international transfer of human remains.

• Hank Kim
  an auto repair shop owner in Lake Forest, California, who recently arranged to have his parents' remains transported to California from Korea.

• Henry Kwong
  manager of a funeral home in Los Angeles, who has helped families arrange the international transfer of family remains.

• Evelyn Lee
  an aerospace engineer who recently arranged to have her grandparents' remains transported to California from China.

• Merrill Mefford
  an official with Rose Hills cemetery in Whittier, California, who noted trends in the international transferral of remains.

• Don Nakanishi
  director of UCLA' Asian American Studies Center, who studies the cultural impact of reburial.

• Gin Gee Tong
  a cauliflower farmer who died in his native China in 1952 and was returned recently to his family in California.

• Yook Chew Tong
  a Chinese immigrant who recently arranged to have his father's remains transported to California.