Stanley Shih-Hsi Yeh 葉世禧

Stanley Yeh’s family was from Penghu, Taiwan. He was born in Tainan on June 8, 1949, and grew up in Kaohsiung. He attended National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, where he earned a degree in nuclear engineering. He later served his military term at Matsu.

In 1974, he worked for the Atomic Energy Council and was sent to work at the Taiwan Power Company nuclear power plant at Jinshan. In 1976, Stanley and I (Joyce) were married, and in the same year he left for America to earn his PhD in nuclear engineering. In 1977, I came to America and in 1979, our first son, Victor, was born. In 1980, after Stanley received his PhD, he came to the Bay Area for work, and our second son, Yumin, was born in 1982.

Stanley returned to Taiwan in 1990 to start a nuclear consulting company with his friends but later returned to America due to a rare autoimmune disease that attacked the central nervous system. Despite this hardship, I thank God for His grace to be reunited with Stanley, so that we could be together and support each other. At this time, our two sons were already in college. After Stanley partially recovered, he was a consultant at General Electric until 2002. Thereafter, he worked remotely as a consultant until his retirement in 2005.

Stanley was extraordinarily intelligent, and his academic performance was often among the best. He was quiet, introverted, cautious, yet persistent. He pursued perfection and excellence in everything he did; therefore, he was sometimes relatively stubborn. Stanley worked hard not to seek praise or rewards but only to follow through with his responsibilities.

Stanley was not always the best at expressing his emotions verbally, but he always did his best to serve his family until the end. Growing up, his family did not have much, so as the eldest son he sent his money back to his family, only keeping a small portion for his own living expenses. To his family, he was extremely selfless, and he was no different in the later years of his life, doing his best to help his children and grandchildren as well, even in ill health. He expressed his love by giving them his all, with all his strength.

Stanley once said that the meaning of life is understood in stages. For him, coming to America where there is freedom, equality, goodwill, and acceptance was a new stage in his life. The nineteen years of his life before he returned to his heavenly home was another new stage. With his disease that caused pain and limited mobility, he had to stay at home most of the time, but those times were also the most blessed and joyful days of his life. His two sons each began their own families and established their careers, and he had two caring daughters-in-law and two sweet grandchildren. To spend each day happily with family--he could not have asked for much more.

In his family’s eyes, he will always be a kind grandfather, an invincible father, and a caring husband. He will forever live in our hearts.