Yiwei Ding

Hi, Yi Wei, it's been a year now, but your face is still clear...we still remember you and our class group on Wechat said many nice things about you during the Qing -ming festival , you are lucky on this sense! Our world is no better than the place you went to, so rest in peace!

Yiwei was a good man, a loyal friend, a talented chemist, and most of all, devoted to his family. He is missed by many.

I want to pay tribute to a wonderful husband, father, and a family man. Yiwei has been a part of my life for twenty plus years, and he continues to be to this day. When he lived in St. Louis, I have fond memories of us playing cards while the children videogamed in the adjacent room, sharing potluck dishes, driving our families on road trips to Florida and Michigan among the many shared destinations we’ve had. Much of this was put on hold when Yiwei moved to Houston a few year ago.

Deepest heartfelt condolences to Yewei´s family. He was a great colleague with whom we had dinner several times at our place and discussed variety of topics. We cannot believe he passed so suddenly. We will miss him. Jay and Rashmi Puranik

Though I have been out of touch with Yiwei for a number of years, hearing of is passing this week hit me especially hard. I hired him out of college in the late 1990s and have some great memories of those early days working in Q building as part of Monsanto’s Growth Enterprise. Back then our team was chartered to come up with new ideas to develop new business platforms- ours was conductive polymers. Yiwei nicknamed one of the polymers under development “PANDA” .

A few years after...

My deepest condolences to your family. Yiwei was a great colleague, who I admired not only for his scientific abilities but also for being such an amazing human being. I will cherish the few years that I got to know him and work with him. He was incredibly proud of you both, Stanley, and Sarah. I remember the many conversations where he talked about your academic success and successes in your sport activities. May God give you the strength and fortitude as you celebrate his life and...

Yiwei was a great colleague and friend: he was always generous in sharing his knowledge and I learnt a lot from him when we worked together at Monsanto; I will never forget the valuable conversations we had about technology, science, career, and life. I will always cherish the wonderful memories I have with Yiwei and he will be forever missed.

A loving husband and fully dedicated father, Yiwei is extremely proud of his family. Yiwei and Jin's total commitment to Stanley and Sarah's education and development is most admirable! What a well lived life that inspires all of us! A fun and great friend/colleague to be around, Yiwei is always energetic and positive with a smile on his face. Among so many fondest memories of all the chats and gatherings we had, the most unique one is going together to Dave Mungenast car dealership to...