He was born in 1927 to Ting-kuan Sun and Wen-chuan Chen in Ningbo, China as the second sibling of six brothers and two sisters. He graduated from high school in 1947 and registered for military service with the National Defense Medical College (NDMC) in 1949, where he finished his training in medicine and surgery. Later he served as lieutenant in the Chinese Navy Medical Corps and met his wife, Nancy Sai-Nan Chang. In 1961, they welcomed their first daughter, Yuehli (Jean), during his appointment at the US Naval Medical Research unit in Taipei where he began his extensive research into Liver Disease and Hepatitis. Two years later (1963), his second daughter, Chuli (Julie), was born. He began Cardiovascular Research at Tulane School of Medicine in 1965 leaving his wife in Taiwan who was expecting their third daughter, Muli (Mary). After he earned his Masters degree of Science in Nutritional Biochemistry his health began to fail and was forced to return to Taiwan in 1968. His return home allowed him to finally meet Mary for the first time. Upon regaining his health, he reported to the Navy for the second time and was assigned to the Keelung Naval Hospital. Over the next 5 years, he continued his Hepatitis research in Japan, Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung until his health collapsed once again. By God’s grace, he was nursed back to health by his wife and was honorably discharged from the Navy in 1973.
In 1975, he accepted an assistant professorship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where his family joined him from Taiwan. He was also able to reunite with his schoolmate from NDMC Dr. Chung-ming Chao, who introduced him to Jesus Christ. In 1976, he served as a general PRACTITIONER for Cerebral Palsy and Epileptic patients, where he worked for 30 years until his retirement in 2006 at the age of 80.
After retirement, he enjoyed traveling the world with his wife and family. Some of his most memorable trips were to Alaska, Vancouver, Caribbean, Russia, Europe, Beijing, Yangtze River and his home town, Ningbo. He is survived by his wife, Nancy, of 63 years; three daughters (and spouces): Jean Kao (Robert), Julie Kwan (Daniel) and Mary Fei (Johnson), 12 grandchildren, and 3 great grandchildren.
He described his life with the words of Psalms 36:7-9 “How precious is thy loving kindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: In thy light shall we see light.”
A visitation for Shih will be held Friday, September 30, 2022 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM at Mt. Moriah, Newcomer & Freeman Funeral Home, 10507 Holmes Road, Kansas City, Missouri. A funeral service will follow at 11:00 AM. Burial will follow in Mount Moriah Cemetery South.
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