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Wang Cheng Obituary
Wang Wan Cheng, age 85 passed away on Saturday, 15 March, 2008.
Wang is survived by two daughters, five siblings, twelve grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews, cousins, other relatives and many friends in Taiwan and the U.S.
She was born on April 6, 1922, in the town of Tainan, Taiwan to Wang Sin Fang and Chin Yu. She was the oldest of nine siblings and grew up in rural Tainan, where she and her husband, Ching Tan Cheng owned and operated a sugar cane farm and raised their four children of which two preceded her. She immigrated to the United States in 1979 to live with her youngest daughter King Chang and her family in Santa Cruz, California.
Wang enjoyed gardening and knitting all sorts of clothing for family and friends. She also traveled extensively to visit her many grand and great grand-children living around the world. She will be remembered with much love and respect for the wonderful human being she was and the great smile she always had for anyone who came near her. Her kindness was infectious and her devotion to her family was complete. We miss her greatly.
A Memorial Service will be held on Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 11:00am at the Santa Cruz Memorial, 1927 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060.
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Memories and Condolences
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Kay Sato
April 2, 2008
My great-grandmother was a wonderful constant in my life. We are all saddended that she will no longer be with us to share in our joys and achievements and our sorrows and mistakes. I will remember how robust she was in her older years, how she could out eat anyone at the table at the buffet restaurant. I am grateful that as she looked after me as a child, I was able to do the same for her as she got older. As my grandparents leave this earth, I am truly blessed to have known them and will treasure the bond I had with them throughout my life.
Justin Cheng
March 27, 2008
Dear Great-grandmother,
Though you will no longer be with us any more, I know your heart and spirit will always be here with us.
I miss you.
Clara Castan
March 26, 2008
Ah Zuo! I love you and miss you.
Mateo Castan
March 26, 2008
Ah Zuo! I love you and miss you.
Grace Chang
March 26, 2008
No words can describe how much I loved my grandmother. No words can describe how much I miss her. No matter how hard I try, I can never do justice to what she overcame in her lifetime.
But I know wherever she is now she’s happy and contented with what she left us.
I can tell you what a wonderful person she was. I can tell you how delicious her “Zhong zi” were. I can
tell you how she loved knitting sweaters and vests for us. I can tell you how lovingly she attended her
vegetable garden. I can tell you how proud she was of her family. I can tell you so many things…… Most
of all though, I tell you she was an inspiration for me. For a person who couldn’t read or write, she had the
courage – in her seventies to attend adult school to learn English and then in 2000 became an American
citizen, passing her exam in a language she tried to learn late in life. If my grandmother was able to
accomplish such, then surely –with all my years of schooling – can make something of myself; can learn
new languages; can adapt to changes in life……. I don’t know if I can still be the same person I was now that she’s gone. I can remember the last private time we spent together; she had just come home from elderly daycare and I was doing laundry. We both sat outside by the pool that sunny afternoon with my daughter Clara. We had a short talk about what she did that morning at daycare as she held Clara, I simply just enjoyed her quiet
company. Something I haven’t been able to do since moving overseas. I will always long for these quiet
conversations with her. Even if I didn’t finish what I wanted to ask her she already had an answer for it. She was also the kind of person that would think about other people before herself. She never liked
asking for help but she was always ready to lend a helping hand to others. She would do everything in
her power to help other people.
We may no longer see her but we’ll
always have these special moments we shared with her. She will always have a special part in our hearts.
I am forever thankful that she was in my life, that she was my grandmother, and my inspiration.
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