Peter Shi-Chung Wong

November 20, 1928 – September 10, 2026

Wong Shi-Chung was born on November 20th, 1928 in Anhui, China. He was the third child of four alongside his older sister, brother, and younger brother. His first ten years of childhood were spent against the backdrop of political turmoil between the Nationalists and Communists in China and an ever-growing Japanese presence, leading to WWII and the full-scale Japanese invasion in 1937, when he was still 8 years old.

As the invasion spread, Wong Shi-Chung and his family were repeatedly displaced and his schools shut down by the Japanese occupation, forcing them to move from town to town to find livelihood and education. Despite the impacts of war, God in His providence would lead Peter through a network of missionary schools where he came to know the Lord and helped lay a foundation for knowing what was good and right. By the time he was a teenager, Wong Shi-Chung was able to study one year of the Bible under missionaries and went with groups of people to share the gospel.

During this time, Hong Kong provided safe haven for mainland Chinese refugees, and in 1947 Wong Shi-Chung left his family and moved with a group of people from his church to Hong Kong at the age of 19. Wong Shi-Chung joined a small, established church in the city and a strong Christian couple who became his landlord and mentors. They were also owners of an import and export business from China to Hong Kong, and though he had only a 6th grade education, God provided a job on their boat. Later on, this experience enabled Wong Shi-Chung to apply to a larger British shipping company in Hong Kong and they offered him a merchant marine position and he sailed all around the world to ports of call in almost all the continents.

Beyond providing a new country and a secure job, God provided Wong Shi-Chung with a godly wife. In 1957, Reverend Paul Chang brought him to Sai Kung to meet a then 18-year-old Lau So-Mui for the first time. The two would eventually wed in 1963 and God blessed them with four children: their daughter, Ida, sons John and Steve and their youngest daughter, Alice.

Shortly thereafter, Wong Shi-Chung would immigrate to America in 1970 to secure permanent residency which allowed the family to join him in 1973. As they began building a new life in America, Shi-Chung and So-Mui adopted the names Peter Shi-Chung and MaryAnn So-Mui Wong. Peter’s journey began in Virginia, where he worked in the Chinese restaurant business as a waiter, then started his own restaurant in Beaumont, Texas. He would return to Virginia where he worked at Duck Chang’s, before becoming a restaurant manager at Oh’s Place in Washington DC’s waterfront. His last restaurant gig was at Washington DC’s renowned Peking Gourmet Inn, where he served presidents, celebrities and other Washington DC dignitaries until retiring at age 71 in 2000.

Peter and MaryAnn retired and moved to Oregon in 2000 to be closer to their children and were blessed to be close to John, Steve, and eventually Ida’s families. God provided for them spiritually with a church home at Chinese Grace Baptist Church where he enjoyed being in Sunday worship again. He enjoyed Bible study, singing hymns, listening to classical music and playing Bingo. Peter spent his last 26 years in Oregon blessed with God’s providence of 8 children, 11 grand-children, and 3 great grand-children.

Peter is survived by his wife of 63 years, MaryAnn; his children Ida (Marvin) Walworth, John (May) Wong, Steven (Elizabeth) Wong, Alice (Victor) Chin; his grandchildren, Amanda (Jonathan), Michael, Joy, Boice, Gabriel, Andrew, Evelyn, Rachel, Matthew, and Sarabeth; and great grandchildren, Kian, Ethan, and Andrew.