Vincente Dung Anh Cao

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dung Anh Cao, our gracious husband, loving father, and caring grandfather. His wife and children were beside him in his final moments. He was 73. He is survived by his wife Nga, his daughters Mary-Ann [Jon] and Jennifer, step-daughter Thao [Thanh], and his grandchildren Darren, Claire, Olivia, and Ian.

Born in Hanoi, Vietnam, Dung was one of four children. He attended school at Lycée Yersin in Da Lat, and later École Les Lauriers in Saigon, two elite French schools. At the age of 18, he joined the Vietnamese Air Force where he became a helicopter mechanic.

Like many Vietnamese, he fled his home country in 1975 and eventually took refuge in Canada. With his skillset, he obtained a job at Pratt & Whitney and remained there until he moved to the United States in 1979. Once arriving in the U.S., he worked for many large companies.

From 1980 - 1992, he worked for IBM as a programmer.

From 1994 - 2008, he was a technician at Cisco Systems.

From 2008 - 2020, he became an Inventory Accountant for Infinera Corporation.

In January of 2020, Dung Cao officially retired after 40 years of hard work and always being complimented by the administration of every company he worked for.

He always had a love for airplanes. In his youth, he often played with airplane-building kits and models. Aviation became a big theme in his life: from his inspiration to join the Air Force to his first professional job at Pratt & Whitney and beyond.

He had a goofy sense of humor. We can only imagine that he must have been the inventor of the "Dad Jokes." You could always count on him to lighten the mood and have everyone laughing until they cry.

He had a thirst for knowledge. He could always be found reading the paper or spending hours on the Internet just keeping up with current events and absorbing a breadth of information. We would be awestruck by the sheer amount of information he had to share and the enthusiasm that filled him while sharing it.

He was a generous man who valued the simple things in life. He was the kind of person who would be frugal when it came to himself, but generous to no bounds when it came to his loved ones. You could tell that his wealth came in the form of his relationships with his friends and family, and the life experiences he shared with them.

And most of all, he loved his family very deeply. He will be dearly missed and forever in our hearts.