Angeline Wong (Student)

Entered August 11, 2017 from Toronto

Please accept my deepest condolences for the loss. 🙏

Lam Yee Wah (Colleagues in St. Stephen's Girls' College)

Entered August 12, 2017 from Happy Valley, Hong Kong

The kindness and smile of Mrs. Margaret Huong will always be remembered. She was cheerful in the staffroom. I still remembered that we had a joyful dinner with her and a lot of SSGC graduates in Toronto, summer of 2014. She was very happy too. Rest in Peace, Mrs Huong.

Helen Sheng (Helen Yan Lun Kong) (student)

Entered August 12, 2017 from Roslyn Heights

I really appreciate Mrs. Huang. She wasn't just a chemistry teacher, she cared for us. I am glad that she is in the arms of our loving Lord.

Julie Li (Sister-in-law of Margaret Huang)

Entered August 13, 2017 from Montreal

excerpts from email:
7/26
....... I tend to have trouble controlling my emotions and it will not be pleasant for your mother to see or hear people crying around her. Please just let her know that our whole family love and appreciate her very much, starting from my mother, your Nainai. (grandma)
It's all because she is such a good and tolerant person, and she loves your father so much that she’d put up with us all. We’re truly lucky to have her. I also hope she will be comfortable and pain free.
8/10
I'm sad to hear from Cathy that your Mom had left us. My condolence and I hope she didn't suffer too much pain at the end.
Margaret is the best sister we're lucky enough to have. She was generous, tolerant, caring and loyal. She can be a little spacey at times, but that made her all the more lovable. We're all lucky to have her for as long as we've had.

......from Julie Li 黄香玖 (sister in law of Margaret Huang)

Y.Y. Siu (Retired Social Worker at Mon Sheong)

Entered August 13, 2017

“We were old friends”
Margaret told me many times when I was working as the social worker at Mon Sheong Richmond Hill Long Term Care Centre.
The first time I met Margaret was she came to the Centre for a tour together with her daughter. Because of her hearing ability and in order not to miss any information, she followed me so closely and I was afraid that I would step on her. Margaret asked a lot of questions in details about the operation and services provided in order to find an appropriate placement for her beloved husband, Felix. She already impressed me from the first encounter.
Felix admitted in December 2011 and she moved in a few months after. Margaret compromised her community lifestyle in order to be with Felix. Margaret was a loyal and attentive wife. She always looked for the best interest of Felix and was sensitive to his needs. Felix suffered from dementia, but she did not gave up hope on him, she was consistent to find ways to help to maintain his cognitive functioning. She attended related workshops and kept on stimulating Felix in different ways.
Margaret lived a long and happy life. She has a loving husband and caring daughters and sons. Margaret was cheerful, confident, vibrant and full of life. She never stopped learning. She continued to lead an active life after admitting into the long term care centre. Not only she joined the college alumni with Felix in the community on a regular basis, she read books, sewed, knitted and doing calligraphy. She was also the chair of the Residents Council. Margaret was an inspiration.
It was an honor to know her and be a brief part of her life. I will miss her, but it warms my heart that I have sweet memories of her that I will cherish. May she rest in peace.
My sincere condolences to the family members of Margaret. May you find peace with all the fond memories and Margaret will stay in the hearts forever of those who love her.

Margaret’s old friend,
Y.Y. Siu

Tanya Tsui (Granddaughter) Entered August 29, 2017
When I remember PoPo, I think of her plump figure, hair perfectly curled, sitting on a chair with her feet three inches from the ground, eyes crinkled, and giggling gleefully at a joke GongGong has made at her expense. Or her in our bathroom, surrounded by Clinique make-up products, patiently explaining to me every step of her morning routine. The smell of makeup always brings me back to those moments.
I will miss her waiting anxiously for us in the Mon Sheong lobby every Saturday evening, scolding us for being late for dinner as usual, "the staff are about the get off work!!"
I will miss her barely-concealed excitement at the fact that she'll be having Shangnainese food at Ah-La for her birthday, and the fact that we both have a love for Shanghainese rice cakes (leen go).
I will miss trying to help her with technology, and having her swat my hand away and insist that she can handle it herself.
I will miss that face she makes when we're all about to be late and she wants everyone to hurry up.
Mostly I will miss her face of complete joy and glee, laughing at her own silliness.
PoPo was an academic, a chemist, a teacher, and a mother of four. But despite all her achievements she somehow managed to remain humble, and never lost her ability to laugh at herself.

Christina Im (Granddaughter) Entered August 12, 2017, from Nashville, TN, USA
Two days ago, we said goodbye to my wonderful Po Po (grandma in Chinese). It has taken a couple of days for the news to sink in – isn’t grief interesting that way?
She was a beautiful, strong, intelligent, determined, and loving woman. Po Po didn’t seem to be scared of anything. If she didn’t know how to do something, she would learn. She fearlessly took on swimming, handling finances, e-mailing/using the internet, and becoming the president of her long-term living residency, all while in her upper senior citizen years.
More than her long list of accomplishments, she loved the Lord. Through her relationship with Christ, she taught me how to love others, to forgive even when it hurts, and to serve. She was her husband’s greatest advocate, cheerleader, and caregiver, up until she could no longer physically be there by his side.
My family and I had the privilege to see her a few weeks before she passed away. Daniel and I had the opportunity to introduce her to Makarios and she just couldn’t believe that her little granddaughter now had three children of her own.
I am so thankful for the God-ordained time we had together. We laughed and reminisced about my brother and I growing up in her house with the large stairs and cherry trees in the backyard, the unending supply of dried Philippine mango in their office, and how I loved that she would let me stir the hot chocolate powder into my cold milk – something my parents would never let me do at home.
She asked me when she would see me again and I told her that we would be back for Christmas. We held hands and she told me that she got a new walker and hoped to be walking again next time I see her. She told me over and over again that the next time I see her, she would be walking.
Little did we both know how true her statement would be. Though I will not be seeing her at Christmas, we will be reunited in Heaven. I look forward to the day when we run to embrace each other again – no walker in sight, no pain, no cancer, no sickness.
The song Sinking Deep by Hillsong came on Spotify “randomly” today while eating my lunch. I have heard it sung many times in church, but this time it meant something completely different. I pictured my Po Po standing before her Heavenly Father, completely whole and restored, singing this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UruRQwI8pRE
You have lived your life well, Po Po, and your legacy will live on through the lives of your children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Love you forever.
Until we meet again,
C

Michael Hu (Grandson) Entered August 22, 2017
Here lies Margaret Huang. She was a beautiful, strong, intelligent, determined, and loving woman. But she was more than that for me; she was my Po Po. Not just my grandmother, for in English, I have two of those. But in Chinese, I only have one Po Po, and now that she’s gone, I don’t have a Po Po anymore and I miss her.
Po Po was the one who walked me to school and back, until I was big enough to boss my sister back and forth from school. Christina would kick me in the shins for it, and Po Po always took Baby Ann’s side.
But Po Po loved us, and she loved Gong Gong. She was her husband’s greatest advocate, cheerleader, and caregiver, up until she could no longer physically be there by his side.
And, they never fought… in English. I remember asking Gong Gong for a snack and then there would be a flurry of magic words which include, “Day-yong!”, “Ne mo gao tzou”, “Say lah!”, but would always result with Po Po appearing with shredded pork, or pickled plums, or pig’s ears, or some other thing that I still don’t know what it is today. At Po Po’s household, you don’t ask questions, you just eat it.
Po Po would always be serving us. She would eat the cherries half-eaten by birds or worms from their tree rather than give them to the kids. There once was a lobster soup where we forgot to take off the rubber bands which made the soup extremely bitter. She didn’t feed it to us grandkids or throw it out, but, ate it bit by bit, over time, so that nothing was wasted, and the grandchildren could eat the tasty food.
She put others first, and was very humble. I remember her plump figure, hair perfectly curled, sitting on a chair with her feet three inches from the ground, eyes crinkled, and giggling gleefully at a joke Gong Gong made at her expense.
And she didn’t back down from a challenge. She fearlessly took on chemistry, teaching, swimming, handling finances, e-mailing/using the internet, and becoming the president of her long-term living residency, all while in her upper senior citizen years.
But what is Po Po’s greatest accomplishment? She loved Jesus, and through her quiet influence over decades, she even won Gong Gong over to Christ when many of us thought that was impossible with Gong Gong’s Alzheimer’s. And my parents, and all their children, and all their children’s children are all Christians. How many people can say that they won over their non-Christian husband through gentleness, and see their decedents down to the 4th generation serving Jesus, just like she served others? My Po Po did that.
Here lies Margaret Huang. She can rest in peace not because of the wealth she amassed, or the fame she earned as death takes all that away. Death is the great equalizer for all of us. But Po Po can rest in peace because she rests in Jesus, and through Jesus, all her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren who also rest in Jesus will one day, rest with her in heaven, where death will have its funeral, and every funeral will end up as a reunion.
We miss you Po Po, but not forever, thanks to the Jesus you and I, and everyone else here can know. Amen.

Yvonne Chan (Daughter) Entered August 22, 2017
Mom, you are the one……. By Yvonne
You are the one who kept our family together, through thick and thin, making sure we have a dad AND mom, despite the fact that you came from a family …. with a mother who left you when you were only 1 year old, and an absentee father who pursued his own interest elsewhere.
Mom, you were the one…. the one who endured the most difficult time in your life in Tianjin, China….. without a husband around, raising up a baby (that was me) and 3 toddlers, looking after your own grandmother, survived a famine, being interrogated by officials of the Chinese Communist Party for many nights. Through the photos of that time, I saw the pain in your face and felt the loneliness and the fear in your heart….
Yet you were determined…. determined to re-unite with our Dad in Hong Kong, to give us happiness and freedom…. So you were the one who went to Beijing, the capital of China, every month to see an official who knew your Dad…. begging him to issue an exit permit for us to leave China.
After 3 years, your persistence paid off. You boarded a train in Tianjin China with 4 young children and a grandma…. We left China and entered Hong Kong with valid permits issued by Communist China, which was unheard of at that time!! Mom, you were the one who changed the fate of us … and brought us a new life in Hong Kong.
Mom, you were the one … who generously donated your family heirloom, a rare portrait of your uncle drawn by the famous artist Qi Bashi…. to the HK Chinese University….. because you believed this was the best way to honour your heritage and to waive off greed and fights.
Mom, You were the one… who tried every means to make sure we had a good education…. Because you believed that education is not just a mean to a successful life, but also a way to establish a righteous mind. 學做人，做正直的人
Yet you were the one who accepted us no matter we got good grades or not, loving us even when we never made to be prefects or headgirls in school to make you proud.
Yet Mom, You were the one who were very happy with your children, regardless of whether they excel academically like you did or not.
Mom, you were the one who introduced a sense of God in our young lives, instilling a mindset to appreciate the work of a Creator, and teaching us to be humble enough to know that we are created as children of God.
You were the one who encouraged Dad to carry out his business with honesty and integrity….. to return gifts and “bribes”…. not accepting kickbacks from suppliers,
Mom, you were the one… who inspired us to treat everyone equally, regardless of their status and wealth.....
Mom, you were the one. …. The one who taught me to be kind, to be compassionate, and forgiving
得饒人處且饒人
Mom, you were the one…. Who visited Dad every day when he first admitted to Downtown Mon Sheong, while you stayed in Fellowship Tower Retirement Home alone. You were the one who got on the busy street car, squeezed your frail and tiny body among other TTC riders, then walked in rain, shine or snow to see Dad, to feed him and to keep him company.
Mom, you were the one who couldn’t bear living away from Dad…. That you willingly gave up your autonomy, your independence, your favourite weekly swimming at the Y, your spacious condo, your habitual weekly visit to the salon, your desire to go on family trips and visiting your good friend in New York..…. Instead, you were the one who chose to be with Dad, and jumped for joy to move into Mon Sheong Nursing Home with him.
Mom, you were the one…. The one who always put Dad’s needs above yours, who insisted on paying for Dad the best medicine, to make sure that Dad has the warmest clothing, and he’s the first to be changed and the first to be fed in the nursing home.
You were the one who made sure we would remember to celebrate Dad’s birthday every year in January, but never mentioned a word about your own birthdays…..and we were often busy with our lives and forgot to celebrate yours.
Mom…. You are the one who lived an example of an unconditional love for your husband and your children….. a role model for us to follow….
Mom, you were the one, the one that …..through your battle with cancer… brought out the best of everyone around you. Your children learned to work together to give you support and care, making a schedule to feed you, to be with you…..your grandchildren, your friends & relatives …. All learned to appreciate you even more, visiting you, writing encouraging notes and sending flowers to you, making soups to boost your diet, ….
All these act of kindness and compassion are well appreciated by you.. as you gracefully returned with a “thank you” and a look of gratitude.
Mom, you were the one, ………..through this illness, helped us to humbly accept the limitations of human beings …… to realize how fragile and precious life could be……. and to treasure the people around us. 珍惜眼前人
Mom, you were the one…. who told my son Matthew when he left to continue his study abroad, saying “next time when I see you, I’ll be in a better state”…. Yes, Mom, you are in a better state now, no longer bedridden, no longer bearing the pain and suffering…. You are roaming freely, embraced by the loving hands of God, looking down at us…. With love, with a twinkling beam in your eyes, and I hope….a satisfying grin in your face.
Mom, you were the one…. The one that I promise, we promise, that we’ll look after Dad for you, we’ll visit him, feed him, love him, ….. yet we know, Mom, we can’t do half as good a job as you did. Dad will miss you, we’ll miss you….
Who could ask for a better mom than you ?
You are our greatest blessing, and we will try to be your living legacy…..
Thank you Mom !!
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Richard Hu (son in law) Entered December 7, 2017
追思與懷念
岳母為人，律己甚嚴。說話溫和，態度誠懇。做事認真，盡心盡職，且是位極有雅量的婦人。
她與岳父對我兩個孩子的愛心流露在家教上。經過他們的訓誨指導，所有學科成積，高人一等。在信仰上，從小就認識了神，有根有基，安居樂業。如今全家信主，蒙神祝福。
「我們若活着是為主而活，若死了是為主而死。」總有一天，我們都要息了自己的勞苦，離世與主同在。岳母一生不求自己的益處，且因有顆敬畏神的心。取信與人，取悅於神。這是她的好得無比的見證。
愛是捨己的，給予的，犧牲的﹐今天做父母的，有使命在家先活出這樣的愛，然後將這樣的愛教導給孩子，愛人如己，使我們的家庭成為「愛之窩 」。
我們感謝神恩待譚容，讓她在世上享有九十一年。「她服事了她那一世的人，就睡了。」這是她活了一個豐盛的生命最好寫照。至於我們留下的，我們仍要繼續奔那擺在我們前頭的路程。也在此求主照着祂的應許，賜福給她所有的子子孫孫。
大女婿 胡立權