Mrs. LOAN THI HENRICH Pháp Danh DIỆU THIỆN

A Prayer service will be held at Peek Funeral Home, chapel #5. Located at 7801 Bolsa Ave, Westminster, CA 92683, on Sunday, August 3, 2025, from 9:00 am to 10:00 am.

Visitation will follow at the same location from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.

The Funeral and Cremation service will take place at Peek Funeral Home from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm on the same day.

Hello everyone. My name is Do Quoc Minh. I am Do Thi Loan’s son. Thank you for joining us today to celebrate my mother’s remarkable life.

“Life is suffering.” That was the mantra that my mother taught me from a very young age. Like many people of her generation in Vietnam, she knew what true suffering was.

The youngest of nine children, she saw her father and seven siblings pass before she was nine years old. Her mother also became blind. It wasn’t enough that she was born in a nation at war, life told her that she had to do it on her own.

Even though she experienced multiple wars, famine and so many deaths throughout her life, when she said that “life is suffering”, she only meant it as an acknowledgment to the challenges that were ahead of her. Even at the age of nine, she knew what she must do to transcend it - be kind, and care for others - and at nine years old, she did just that when she went into the jungles to fight for the Resistance against foreign invaders. She used to tell me: “My job was to get medicine to the injured soldiers, and I did, hundreds lived because of me.” She said it so matter of factly because it was true.

My mother told me of stories about her singing by the camp fire with other fighters; of nights where she laid on the jungle ground, looking up at the star covered sky. Those quiet nights floating among the stars led to her guilty obsession for diamonds. It was her love for these shiny things that led to the lifting of so many lives.

When she was old enough to pick up a gun, she asked to be released from her obligations with the Resistance to pursue her true passion-be among the stars. Gifted with natural beauty and talent, she took to the stage and until she left for America, she lived her life as she had always wanted, as a star.

“Be kind, care for others”, it’s easier to do when you have more than you need. At her peak, life tested her again, it took everything from her and sent her to America. It was during this time of her life when we, her children, witnessed what a great person she truly was.

“Life is suffering”. She lost everything. But even then, she always found a way to care for everyone around her, and I mean everyone. She not only care of her family in America, she found ways to care for her family in Vietnam. She didn’t just care for her family, she cared for strangers, old and young. She did all that she could to care for everyone who needed to be cared for.

My mother loves her family. She cared for her mom until the end. She saw to it that each of her children had a home. Every child has a degree. Every grandchild had been cared for by her. When your mom needed a break, your grandmother was there to hold you. She loved each and every one of you. Your successes brought her joy. When you fell and hurt yourself, she felt that too.

“Life is suffering”. She saw that we each had a duty to ease one another’s pain. She wanted to complete her mission - bring medicine to the injured. She wanted to complete her duty, and return to the Buddha and live eternity in peace.

We are gathered here today to see her off to her next adventure among the stars. We will miss you ME.