It is with deep sorrow that we announce that our beloved Yuet Ngan (Helen) Wong, passed away on December 19, 2022 at the Yee Hong Peter K. Kwok Hospice. She was 78.

Yuet Ngan was born on February 19, 1944 in Hong Kong, to her late father Kwong Bo Chi and her late mother Kwok Yan Nui. Yuet Ngan grew up in Hong Kong and where she met Bing Hoi Wong and fell in love. They married in 1969 and had two children, Kam Wa (Michael) and Man Yee (Annie), a few years after they married.

In 1976, Yuet Ngan and Bing Hoi made the life changing decision to move to Canada with their two young children and seek new opportunities. Like many immigrants to Canada, it was challenging to leave their friends and family behind to move to a new country. Yuet Ngan took the challenges in stride, learning English, new currency and new customs. In 1977, Yuet Ngan gave birth to Kam Keung (Stephen).

Yuet Ngan worked as a seamstress to provide support for her family. In Canada, she was known as Helen and Bing Hoi was known as David. Together, Helen and David worked hard days and nights to support their family and ensure food was always on the table, a roof over their heads and supported to succeed at school and in life.

Helen was very social and often played mahjong with the neighbours and won more often than she lost. She frequented Toronto's Spadina Chinatown with all the kids in tow and was well known at various dim sum restaurants where staff would happily greet her. She could always find a great deal and was a sharp negotiator.

Helen was very active in the local Annex neighbourhood and would often lead a large group of 20 neighbours at the local park to practice "Luk Tung Kuen", a form of exercise. It become so popular, a reporter from the Toronto Star wrote an article about Helen and the neighbours who were part of this group.

Later, Helen would work with Chinese Seniors' groups in Chinatown at the Cecil Street Community Centre and the University Settlement Community Centre. Seniors would frequently stop Helen and David in the streets of Chinatown to strike up a conversation. Helen loved to dance and sing and would share these passions with her friends, family and community.

In 2017, Helen and David moved from downtown Toronto to Yee Hong Garden Terrace to live in a seniors' community. Helen was diagnosed with an atypical form of Parkinson's Disease which impacted her mobility and eventually, her ability to speak and eat. In spite of the disease progression, Helen was always social with her neighbours and making her PSWs laugh.

Helen loved her children and her grandchildren and always enjoyed their laughter, singing and company. Helen was an amazing woman, wife, mother, sister, aunt and grandmother. She touched the lives of many people and will be sorely missed, but never forgotten.

Helen is survived by her husband, Bing Hoi (David); her children, Kam Wa (Michael) and his wife Ada Seto, Man Yee (Annie) and her husband Vahid Rahvar and Kam Keung (Stephen) and his partner Helen Thach; and her grandchildren: Sakura and Daniel, Abigail, Madeline and Amelia and many cousins, nieces and nephews.

The family suggests that, if desired, memorial contributions be sent to the Yee Hong Community Wellness Foundation.