Chau Bui

Đỗ Thị Minh Châu passed away peacefully at Fairfax INOVA Hospital on Thursday, September 3, 2015, surrounded by her family members. She was 86 years old.

Đỗ Thị Minh Châu was born on November 13, 1929 in Thanh Hóa, Vietnam. She had four siblings, one sister and three brothers and was the fourth child. Her father was a general physician who traveled throughout the northern rural areas to attend to local family medical needs. She acted as a nurse and aided her father in all of his medical treatments and procedures, including delivering babies and assisting with surgeries.

In 1954, her family moved from north Vietnam to south Vietnam. In 1963, she met and married Bùi Hà. They have one daughter Bùi Ngọc Chi. The family immigrated to the United States in April 1975 and has stayed in the Washington D.C. area for the last 40 years. In the 1980s, she was a co-owner of the Vietnamese restaurant La Pagode in Falls Church. She also had a small catering business called Bắc Hà Deli, and made traditional Vietnamese delicacies called bánh dầy giò.

She was always gentle, caring, thoughtful, generous, and courageous and was dedicated to her family and friends. She was a pianist and had a passion for the game of mahjong. She was also a gardener and brought many plants back to life with her magic “green thumb” touch.

She will be tremendously missed by all of her family. She is survived by her only daughter, Bùi Ngọc Chi, her husband Phạm Tiến, and three grandchildren, Phạm Quân (19), Phạm Ngọc Minh (17) and Phạm An (13).

Mrs. BÙI HÀ

Maiden name Đỗ Thị Minh Châu

November 13, 1929 – September 3, 2015

INTERNMENT

National Memorial Park, Falls Church, Virginia

ALTAR BEARERS

Bùi Ngọc Chi

Phạm Ngọc Minh

Phạm An

PALLBEARERS

Phạm Tiến Vủ Văn Hiền

Phạm Quân Kiều Quốc Duy Steven

Đỗ Thế Hoằng Bùi Vịnh

Đỗ Thế Tài Bùi Dũng

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

We thank you for your presence, prayers, comforting words,

acts of kindness and for sharing our sorrow during this time.

We especially like to thank Sư Cô Viên Hụê and

Chùa Viên Ȃn for leading the prayers.