Hinh Thi le

She was Married to Yeng Van for 80 years. Hinh Le was born as the third child of her family of nine (9) siblings. She joined in marriage with Yeng Van at the age of 17. She worked for herself in the first third of her adult life and thrived as a self-taught entrepreneur/wholesale distributor of products such as rice, rice fertilizer, residential construction materials, which were essential to her suburban communities. Following the collapse of the Republic of Vietnam in 1975, she and her family were accepted as refugees to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she worked mostly as a seamstress until retirement.

In her days in Vietnam, as a passion and a hobby, she proudly tailored and made clothes for her young children with the mechanical sewing machine she purchased. She did such and much more while running a successful enterprise, travelling much for work, raising many young children, and managing the family’s numerous sharecropped rice fields. She also liked to have livestock. At various times back then, there were roaming-free chicken, pigeons in coop, goats (for milk) in pen, and/or several previously abandoned cows on the family’s tiny urban residential lot. She also loved the family’s dogs who were blissful to see her and wagged their tails in greeting upon her return from a business trip.

She enjoyed her small collection of books on Oriental horoscopes, nativity, and palm reading. She studied them and practiced her acquired knowledge on her husband, the children, or visiting relatives in her free time.

She was baptized and became a devoted Baptist in 1975.

She was preceded in death by her only daughter Lynn Van Leosewski and youngest son Kyle (Du) Van.

She is survived by husband Mr. Yeng Van, brother Thoi Le, sister Hue Le (VN), and eight (8) sons - Manh Van, Tom Van, Tanh Van, Doan (Duong) Van, Victor (Hoa) Van, Michael (Mao) Van, Mui Van, and Ty Van.