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June 11, 2010
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, June 14, 2010 from 11-12:30 PM, and a Funeral Service will be held at 12:30 PM on Monday immediately following the visiting.
Menghui Zhang, age 97 of Lincoln Park, died on Friday, June 11, 2010. She was born in Lianshui, Jiang-su Province, China in 1913 and came to America in 1990. She married her husband in 1929, a marriage of 74 years that would endure and survive both the Japanese invasions of China during World War II and the Communist Cultural Revolution.
In 1935, married with three children and living in Beijing, her husband received an educational visa and came to America to study at Cornell University. While he was here, the Japanese invaded China, and she was cut off from any communication with her husband for 10 years. In 1945, as soon as the war ended, her husband returned to China on the first flight from America to find his wife. Although she had survived, their three children had perished due to the harsh wartime conditions imposed by the Japanese. Together, they started a new family and raised five children in Beijing, where her husband worked as head of the Academy of Railway Sciences. Tragedy struck again when the Communist Cultural Revolution started in 1966. Her husband was detained to a labor camp and falsely accused of being a spy simply because he had been educated in America. Her five children were taken from her and sent to the countryside to be “re-educated” by the Communist government. Her children recalled the “Red Guards” violently raiding their home on three separate occasions, trying to find evidence that their father was a spy, but all the “Red Guards” really did was steal their personal belongings, food, and money, leaving them with nothing. Menghui, the amazing woman and mother that she was, persevered and held out hope that she would be reunited with her family once again someday. At the end of the Revolution, she was reunited with her husband and children once again and they grew stronger. One by one, her children were granted student visas to come to America and by 1990, at seventy-seven years old, she and her husband came to America, too. At first, she settled in Manhattan, then lived in Flushing, Queens, before eventually moving to Lincoln Park to live with her sons Tie-Zeng and Dao-Zeng. This is a woman whose will was proven to be stronger than any of the adversities thrown at her by the circumstances of her life; a woman whose love for her family carried her through the storms of her life to the blessed age of ninety-seven years.
Menghui is survived by her five loving children: Yan-Zeng Tang of Allentown, PA; Tie-Zeng Tang of Lincoln Park, NJ; Dao-Zeng Tang of Lincoln Park, NJ; Tang-Zeng Tang of Macungie, PA; and Qian-Zeng Tang of Beijing, China; as well as four devoted grandchildren: Hui Yuan Du of Beijing, China; David Tang of Los Angeles, CA; Dean Tang of Macungie, PA; and Bianca Tang of Allentown, PA.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, June 14, 2010 from 11-12:30 PM, and a Funeral Service will be held at 12:30 PM on Monday immediately following the visiting.
June 11, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, June 14, 2010 from 11-12:30 PM, and a Funeral Service will be held at 12:30 PM on Monday immediately following the visiting.
Menghui Zhang, age 97 of Lincoln Park, died on Friday, June 11, 2010. She was born in Lianshui, Jiang-su Province, China in 1913 and came to America in 1990. She married her husband in 1929, a marriage of 74 years that would endure and survive both the Japanese invasions of China during World War II and the Communist Cultural Revolution.
In 1935, married with three children and living in Beijing, her husband received an educational visa and came to America to study at Cornell University. While he was here, the Japanese invaded China, and she was cut off from any communication with her husband for 10 years. In 1945, as soon as the war ended, her husband returned to China on the first flight from America to find his wife. Although she had survived, their three children had perished due to the harsh wartime conditions imposed by the Japanese. Together, they started a new family and raised five children in Beijing, where her husband worked as head of the Academy of Railway Sciences. Tragedy struck again when the Communist Cultural Revolution started in 1966. Her husband was detained to a labor camp and falsely accused of being a spy simply because he had been educated in America. Her five children were taken from her and sent to the countryside to be “re-educated” by the Communist government. Her children recalled the “Red Guards” violently raiding their home on three separate occasions, trying to find evidence that their father was a spy, but all the “Red Guards” really did was steal their personal belongings, food, and money, leaving them with nothing. Menghui, the amazing woman and mother that she was, persevered and held out hope that she would be reunited with her family once again someday. At the end of the Revolution, she was reunited with her husband and children once again and they grew stronger. One by one, her children were granted student visas to come to America and by 1990, at seventy-seven years old, she and her husband came to America, too. At first, she settled in Manhattan, then lived in Flushing, Queens, before eventually moving to Lincoln Park to live with her sons Tie-Zeng and Dao-Zeng. This is a woman whose will was proven to be stronger than any of the adversities thrown at her by the circumstances of her life; a woman whose love for her family carried her through the storms of her life to the blessed age of ninety-seven years.
Menghui is survived by her five loving children: Yan-Zeng Tang of Allentown, PA; Tie-Zeng Tang of Lincoln Park, NJ; Dao-Zeng Tang of Lincoln Park, NJ; Tang-Zeng Tang of Macungie, PA; and Qian-Zeng Tang of Beijing, China; as well as four devoted grandchildren: Hui Yuan Du of Beijing, China; David Tang of Los Angeles, CA; Dean Tang of Macungie, PA; and Bianca Tang of Allentown, PA.
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