Among her accomplishments were the reclamation of missing artifacts from the governor's mansion Washington Place, cataloguing the contents, and opening the house to docent-led tours.

While working her way through college, she booked customer reservations for Hawaiian Airlines and sold merchandise at Liberty House.

After earning her teaching certificate and graduating from the university, she taught at Admiral Arthur W. Radford High School.

All of their children attended an afternoon Japanese language school in Hawaii, because George believed that being multi-lingual and understanding their cultural heritage would be an asset to them.

[4] She had every item catalogued by faculty members of the University of Hawaii, and part of the downstairs was turned into a museum.