Ho Xuan Phan

North Vietnam. He and his family left North Vietnam in

1954 for the South Vietnam in order to keep his freedom

of speech, religion, etc ... He graduated from the Dalat

officer academy in 1957 in Vietnam. He worked in the

military of the South Vietnam from 1957 to 1975. His

last post was in Phu Lam radar station in Saigon. His

military rank was a major in Signal branch. He and his

first son left Vietnam in 1982, first stayed in Pulau Bidon,

Malaysia, then in Palawan, Philippines, and fmally settled

in Jacksonville, Florida in September, 1982. He attended

and graduated from Florida Community College at

Jacksonville cum laude in 1987. The rest of his family

reunited with him in Jacksonville, Florida in 1990. He

was a former employee at Boger's shoes, then at

American Technical Ceramics, and retired from there in

2000. He will be remembered for his love for his family,

his church, and his country. One of his daughters, Nga

Phan passed away in 1998, and his wife passed away in

2005. He passed' away on Febl3, 2012. He survives by

his twelve children: 8 daughters, 4 sons, and 11

grandchildren. The viewing will be on Thursday 2/16/12

at 7PM at Chapel Hills Funeral Home, 850 St John Bluffs

Road North in Jacksonville, Florida, the funeral mass will

be held at Blessed Trinity Catholic Church, 10472 Beach

Blvd, Jacksonville, Florida on Friday 2/17/12 at lOAM,

and the burial ceremony will be at Greenlawn Cemetery

after mass.