Hoa Khanh Truong Tribute

His history expands back to 1924 when he was born in China.  At 16 years old he moved to Hong Kong during the war.  He moved to North Vietnam where he became a successful businessman.  He married at 20 years old and had 8 children.  Since another war broke out, he moved his family to South Vietnam where he continued to do well in business and became president of Dong Phuong bank as well as the superintendent of the school Sung Nho.  His wife fell ill and passed in 1967.  He remarried in 1969 and had 5 more children.  Another war broke out in Vietnam and he decided to move his family to the United States in 1980.  He had his youngest in 1982 for a total of 14 children.  He has a total of 32 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren.

He was a man of class.  He was always well-dressed and groomed regardless of where he was going.  He even liked to look and smell nice at home.  He would often comb his hair and spray on Drakar cologne.  Dad loved to cook for his family.  Right when you walked through the door, he would feed you until you couldn't eat anymore.  The joy on his face when we would eat his cooking was undeniable.

We give thanks for the life of a man who was not only a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather but a joyful, selfless, kind, and irreplaceable man whose beauty, both internal and external, will never be extinguished from our minds.  Daddy we love you, may you rest in peace.


'What you have once enjoyed you can never lose...All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.' -Helen Keller