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He attended Lowell High School and San José State University where he met Jeanne Wakatsuki whom he would marry in 1957. Houston was born in San Francisco where his parents had migrated from Quanah Texas a small town near Oklahoma. Death
Houston died of complications of lymphoma aged 75 in Santa Cruz California.

Their story kindled an interest in treks and quests that intensified when he met his future wife Jeanne Wakatsuki whose family had immigrated to California from Japan. Houston co-authored his wife's autobiographical memoir Farewell to Manzanar about her experiences in the Manzanar internment camp. Houston was born in San Francisco where his parents had migrated from Quanah Texas a small town near Oklahoma.