Nhung Kim Thai

Mẹ, Chị Bà Nội, Bà Cố chúng tôi là:

Bà Qủa Phụ Thái Xuân Phú

Nhủ danh: CECILIA THÁI KIM NHUNG

Sinh ngày 15 thàng 02 năm 1941 Tại Vân Hải, Kim Sơn - Việt Nam

Vừa hoàn tất cuộc hành trình đức tin Công Giáo nơi dương thế.

Nay đã về Nhà Cha trên trời, ngày 26 thàng 9 năm 2025

tại Houston, Texas

Hưởng Thọ 84 tuổi

Chương Trình Tang Lễ

-CHÚA NHẬT 05.10.2025

9:00am-10:00am: Nghi thức phát tang

10:00am-5:00pm: Đọc kinh, Thăm viếng và cầu Nguyện

Tại Nhà Quàn Vĩnh Cửu

2454 S. Dairy Ashford Rd

Houston, TX 77077

(281) 531-8180

-THỨ HAI 06.10.2025

9:00am: Thánh Lễ An Táng tại Thánh Đường

Giào Xứ Đức Mẹ Lộ Đức

6550 Fairbanks N. Houston Rd

Houston, TX 77040

Sua Thánh Lễ Linh cữu sẽ được An Táng tại

Earthman Resthaven Cemetery

13102 North Frêway - Houston, TX 77060

(281) 443-0063

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OBITUARY

Cecilia Kim Nhung Thai

February 15, 1941 – September 26, 2025

IN THE CARE OF

Chapel of Eternal Peace

At Forest Park

Cecilia Kim Nhung Thai, beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, returned to the arms of our Lord on Friday, September 26, 2025, in Houston, Texas.

She was born on February 15, 1941, in Van Hai, Kim Son, Vietnam to Phero Hy Duy Nguyen and Maria Mai Thi Tran. She had thirteen siblings and five half-siblings. She and her family moved to Saigon in 1954 where she met her husband, Marcel Phu Xuan Thai. They fled Vietnam with their six sons to escape the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975.

Kim Nhung was TOUGH. Her indomitable strength of character helped her family thrive as they built a new life in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Family was most important to her. Even though she had limited schooling, her resourcefulness and acumen helped to support and nurture all six of her sons through college and their young adult lives. A loving and dutiful wife and mother, she worked a full-time job at Bama Pie Company and still cooked delicious homemade meals, kept her clean house organized, and perfectly laundered and ironed clothes for eight people. Her savviness helped her stretch money to match her generous spirit.

When Kim Nhung loved you, she had the rare quality of embracing you without your having to earn her love. She gave her love freely and unabashedly, which you could taste in her excellent cooking and the way she made sure you had enough of what ever you needed. She creatively knit blankets with foot covers to warm your feet and your heart, and she often sent you home with more food than you knew how to eat. It was clear how much she treasured the people in her life by the way her walls were covered with photos of her family and friends. Her selfless care for her husband for 9+ years after his Alzheimer’s diagnosis earned her a community award for caretaking. She was never without love.

Though many days could be long and hard, she remained cheerful and warm and forgiving. She found much joy in giving her time and help to others. After her sons left the nest and scattered around Texas, she and her husband moved down to Houston to be closer to family. When he left this earth, she continued to care for grandchildren and even children of her daughters-in-laws’ extended family and her sons’ friends. Anyone could count on Ba Noi (“Grandma” in Vietnamese) to watch the babies and give their parents much-needed respite.

At Heart to Heart Hospice Center, she took her last breath after she got to see her newest greatgrandson. She died surrounded by multiple generations of family and friends, a testament to how many lives she touched.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Marcel Phu Xuan Thai. She is survived by one brother, three sisters, a sister-in-law, her six sons and their respective spouses, eleven grandchildren, and twelve great-grandchildren. Her absence leaves a love-shaped hole; we all miss her greatly.