Chun Kuk Ngao

Chun Kuk (Wong Feng) Ngao was born in Canton, China. She was the youngest of four daughters and an older brother. Chun Kuk was also an older sister to a half sister and two half brothers. Chun Kuk met future husband, Loong Yiu Ngao in China and later immigrated to Hong Kong in the late 1940’s. It was in Hong Kong where Chun Kuk gave birth to a son, three daughters and another son. In 1967, Chun Kuk immigrated to the United States with her young children and settled initially in Clarksdale, MS with her husband, who had set up home in the US a few months earlier. After a few years, Chun Kuk and her husband moved to Houston, TX where the youngest daughter was born and where they both lived for the remainder of their lives.

Chun Kuk worked both at home and outside of the house, while raising her large family. There was always food on the table, which she prepared almost always single-handedly. Her repertoire included not only traditional Chinese style cuisine, but American style food as well, which she learned to cook from next door neighbors and other friends. Often, she would bake various pastries & desserts, steam scrumptious baos and stuff lotus leaf rice dumpling (joong) with great care and skill for her family, relatives and friends.

Chun Kuk enjoyed getting together almost weekly with her friends to play Mah Jong. It was not necessarily for monetary competitive reasons, but rather the companionships and opportunities it provided to “boast” about her kids and grandkids. She also enjoyed traveling domestically and internationally to destinations such as San Francisco, Florida, Las Vegas, China, Singapore and Malaysia.

Chun Kuk was preceded in death by her husband in March of this year and by her oldest sister Sue Kiu Wong Joe in October 2012. She leaves behind son Bill, daughter Teresa (Jeff), daughter Wanda, daughter Linda (Raymond), son Bob (Nancy), daughter Cindy (Andy) and grandchildren Erica Belk (Jeremiah), Lauren Wong, Megan Gaw, Michael Ng, Samantha Ng, Natalie Gee, Grace Ngao, Bradley Gee, Emilie Gee and great-grandchild Asher Belk, as well as many relatives and friends.