Daniel Chi-Kuang Chang

Daniel Chang was born in 1939 in Guilin, China and moved to Taipei, Taiwan with his family at the age of 7. He and his soon-to-be wife Grace Wang emigrated to Illinois and then Norman, Oklahoma in 1964 to attend graduate school at the University of Oklahoma. From there he took a faculty position in Mathematics at Mansfield College in Pennsylvania. In the 1970’s his love for adventure and new things took him to further his studies at Michigan State University and then work in the nascent computer support industry in Toledo, Ohio and St. Louis, Missouri. He moved his family to Houston in 1980 to work with Aramco Services in Riyadh for a decade before returning to Houston to work with St. Luke’s Hospital System in 1993. After working in Taipei, Taiwan for a brief time, Daniel retired in Houston in 2007 to enjoy the company of his wife, Grace, the Houston Chinese community, and his grandchildren.

He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Grace; children, Anne (Chris) Godinich, Aaron (Geneva) Chang, Angela (Brian) O’Malley; grandchildren, Evan and Matthew and Julia Godinich, Giselle and Joshua Chang, and Caroline and Christopher O’Malley; other relatives and friends scattered across three continents.

Memorials preferred to the Cancer Research Institute (NYC) or the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.