Mi Ja Song Honeycutt

Mi Ja Song Honeycutt, a long time resident of Pala, CA and currently a resident of Torrance, CA, passed away on November 10, 2018, at the age of 76. She was born in Chongnam, South Korea on September 28, 1942 to Mr. Chong Man and Mrs. Heung Ok Song.

She leaves her son, Alan Honeycutt and his wife, Janie, grandchildren, Sarah and Alex; brother Young Jae and family, brother Pastor Young Soo Song and family, brother Gary Song and family, sister Hwaja and family, sister Grace Kim and family. Her husband of 49 years, Seymour passed away in June of this year.

Mi Ja’s earliest years were spent in the town of Sosan-kun, Chongnam Province where her father worked as a Municipal Clerk. The Song family endured the hardships and brutality of Japanese colonial rule until 1945. Five years later Mi Ja and her family found themselves again struggling to survive in the middle of the Korean War. After peace returned to the Korean peninsula, the family moved to the capitol city of Seoul where she attended high school. As a young woman, she studied English in school and learned about American culture through cinematic ambassadors Burt Lancaster and Elizabeth Taylor.

In 1969, she was married to Seymour Honeycutt in Seoul Korea and moved 5600 miles to Santa Monica, California. Little more than a year later she gave birth to her son Alan. Mi Ja studied English and Business at Santa Monica City College. The family moved again in 1974 to Dallas, Texas, where she worked at Crocker Bank. From 1975 to 1979, she lived in Shiraz, Iran, where her husband worked for Hughes Aircraft.

Returning to the United States, she settled in Redondo Beach. She worked for many years in the clothing and fashion industry. In 1989, Mi Ja and Seymour retired and moved to Pala where they farmed and tended to their trees until she returned to the Lord.