Truong Quang Canh

Truong Quang Canh, 87, passed away peacefully with his loving wife Clair Dalaguit Truong by his side at the Medical City in Ortigas, Pasig City near his home in Antipolo, Philippines, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Over the past several months, Dr. Truong had been battling health issues with the aid of his attentive wife and kind, compassionate caregivers Silver and Fatima. Canh is survived by his wife Clair Dalaguit Truong; sisters Truong Thi Khanh Phi and Truong Thi Dieu Huong, brother Truong Quang Phu; mother of his children Nguyen Thi Thao; daughters Nguyet Anh Truong Montgomery, and Hoang Anh Truong Otero; sons-in-law Jason Montgomery and Mat Otero; teenage grandchildren Jackson Truong Montgomery, Gabriel Truong Otero and Cecilia Truong Montgomery.



Canh lived his life as a bon vivant, loving good food, good conversation and lots of laughter. His easy going, pleasant spirit was with him throughout his life and into his last days. He was truly a happy soul and a citizen of the world. One of his favorite stories to tell with a big laugh was how when he was a student in the U.S., Native Americans mistook him for one of their own asking him what tribe he was from.



Canh was born December 30, 1936 in the village of Hoa Vien in the Thua Thien Hue Province of Vietnam to mom Nguyen Thi Am and dad Truong Quang Phong. Unfortunately, both his parents passed by the time he was age eleven. After elementary school Canh excelled academically at the Quoc Hoc Hue Gifted High School, and then the University of the Philippines ultimately earning Rockefeller Foundation scholarships to complete his Master of Science in Statistics at North Carolina State and a PhD in Agricultural Economics at Ohio State in 1974. Upon his return to Vietnam, he secured a position as Deputy Director of the Agricultural Development Bank of Vietnam in Saigon, but winds of history forced him out in 1975 into a six-month reeducation camp. He spent the next 10 years living under Communism caring for his daughters, playing tennis and all along quietly working in the background with his international contacts in banking to secure another job. In 1985, the Asian Development Bank offered him a position in the Philippines. Canh and his family moved to join the ADB community in Manila where he traveled and worked overseeing agricultural projects in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. During this time, Canh's skill as a tennis player befriended him to many in the banking and diplomatic community. He retired from the ADB in 1997 and built his home with his wife Clair in Antipolo from where he thoroughly enjoyed his retirement years traveling. His daughters and their families have cherished memories of trips, visits and meals with Canh in NYC, Texas, Lake Tahoe, New Mexico, Massachusetts, Bodega Bay, Florida, Vietnam and the Philippines. Canh thoroughly enjoyed visiting with his friends and family around the world. Until the end, Canh relished hearing news about his grandchildren.

He will be missed but his spirit of gentle kindness will endure in all that knew and loved him.



A memorial service was held for Dr. Truong in Antipolo and his ashes will be placed in a shrine mausoleum near his and Clair's home.