According to The Index-Journal of Greenwood, South Carolina, ex-internee Ian MacDonald (“Mac”) Hubbard, 89, died there on 1st October 2025. Following is a brief summary on his family and the their experiences. A link to Ian’s full obituary appears at the end of this article.

Ian’s father, Mark Egerton Hubbard, was born in Brentford, England, in 1905. Ian’s mother, Keith MacDonald (yes, that is her real name), was born in Natick, Massachusetts, in 1906. However, they met in California when they both attended Hollywood High School.

Mark became a U.S. naturalized citizen in 1925 and married Keith in 1928, in Berkeley, where he got a degree in engineering from the University of California in 1929.

A son, Colin Philip Hubbard, was born in 1931 in Cyprus, where Mark was working as a mining engineer. In 1935, after moving to the Philippines, Ian MacDonald Gleig Hubbard was born in Manila.

After the invasion of the Japanese, Mark joined up the guerrillas while Keith and the children were interned in Manila, probably spending time in the Holy Ghost Children’s Home. In 1943, Ian, together with his brother and mother, were repatriated on the S.S. Gripsholm, which arrived New York City, Dec. 1, 1943. They moved in with his grandmother in Laguna Beach, California. (see photo above)

Sometime after liberation, Keith learned that her husband had been captured and executed by the Japanese in 1944. In 1949 she died and the children were sent to live with a relative in San Francisco. Both sons later attended college, started families and had long careers. Colin died in California in 2014.