Linda Hien Luong

Our mother Nguyen Thi Vi-Hien went to be with the Lord at 2:30 a.m. on Monday October 2, 2017 at Vasona Creek Healthcare Center in Los Gatos, California, USA. Vi-Hien was born on August 15, 1936 in Kim Son, Ninh Binh, Vietnam to Mr. Nguyen Van Thien and Mrs. Le Thi Huong. She became an orphan at the age of 2 and attended Catholic school in her childhood. She was married to Mr. Hoang Van Luong in the spring of 1953. Together with her husband Vi-Hien left North Vietnam in the 1954 mass evacuation for a better life in Saigon, South Vietnam. They had spent their lives there until the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 then immigrated to the United States and settled in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, under the sponsorship of the Valley Presbyterian Church. In the summer of 1977 Vi-Hien and her family decided to move to San Jose, California for a warmer climate and lived there until her final day. During her convalescent care at Vasona Creek and shortly before passing, Hien expressed her last wish that she be accepted into the loving hands of the Lord Jesus for she faithfully believed that only God will deliver her from all the lingering pain in her heart and that Mother Mary had guided her to find peace and refuge in the Lord. By a certain divine intervention, Father Pham Quy Trong from the diocese of Phu Cuong, Vietnam, whose brief visit to the U.S. in September, had helped our mother find the spiritual path to Lord. While meeting Father Trong, during one near-death incident, she was somehow able to recall the words of the Hail Mary prayer, which she had not recited for over 75 years since she learned it. In her final days, our mother received the name Maria, as Mother Mary being her patronage saint, through the Sacrament of Baptism in Kaiser Hospital. The Lord had granted Vi-Hien her last wish in contentment. Vi-Hien is survived by her husband, eight children, eighteen grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. We will always carry her loving memories in our hearts.

Special thanks to all the physicians and nurses at Kaiser Hospital and Vasona Creek Healthcare Center for their utmost care of our mother, and to the staff at Oak Hill Funeral Home and Memorial Park for their service in the loving memory of our mother.