Mr. Thanh Ta

Our father, Mr. Thanh Ta, was a hardworking, honest and helpful person. He was born in an extremely poor family. His family home had burned down twice in a few years time. He could only finish a grade four elementary education and started working at the age of 16. Due to various reasons, he needed to promise to repay his dad's and his older brother's business debts to others. It took him many years of hard works to repay them.

In 1951, he married mom and the family grew with 2 daughters and 4 sons : Muoi, Peggy, Co, Bill , Philip and Jason. Life was then still very hard, he had to work long hours daily to support the family.

He encountered numerous difficulties throughout 30 plus years and went through different kinds of business. He finally opened his metal fabrication and manufacturing factory called " Dai Thanh ", with his honesty and skills, the business grew very fast. The fall of Saigon in 1975 had forced him to close his factory in a few years later. In 1984, he immigrated to Vancouver to united with his children and retired since. On Friday. February 25th,2011, he passed away peacefully at St. Michael's Center, Burnaby, BC. Our father had taught us : 1. To be honest to others. 2. And a good health is more important than money in life. We all will miss him dearly.

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Ta, Thanh

Born 4 April, 1930 in Guangzhou, China, and passed away on 25 February, 2011 in Burnaby, BC.

Thanh was predeceased by his four siblings and by his son-in-law Philip Wong. He is survived by his loving wife of sixty years, My Ta; his children Muoi Ta (Hoc Van Tran), Peggy Wong, Co Ta (Linda Truong), Bill Ta (Lang Thi Nguyen), Philip Ta (My Cam Phung), Jason Ta (Linda Wong); and his grandchildren.

Thanh was born into a poor family without many advantages. Hard work and honesty were his bywords and with them he provided a much better life for his family.

A Visitation will be held from 6:00pm to 9:00pm on Wednesday, March 9th at Forest Lawn Funeral Chapel, 3789 Royal Oak Avenue, Burnaby, BC, from where a Funeral Service will be held at 10:00am, on Thursday March 10th, 2011. Interment will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the garden of West Summit. A reception will be held at 1:00pm following the interment at Bodhi Choi Heung Vegetarian Restaurant, 3932 Fraser Street (near East 23rd Ave) Vancouver, BC. Tel: 604-873-3848.