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May Hoy Fong Law
August 6, 1928 - November 25, 2014
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<div itemprop="description">May was born in mainland China, in the countryside near Shanghai where she spent her childhood. When she was a teenager, she moved to Hong Kong and in her twenties, she moved to Montreal with her parents and younger brother, Bing (also deceased). May originally wanted to be a nurse, but was told that her English was not good enough and therefore settled into a job as a keypunch operator at Sunlife Assurance of Canada where she made many many friends and eventually retired from the company after 30 years of service as a data entry clerk. She met her husband, Eddy, after she moved to Montreal through the Chinese Catholic Church English classes where they eventually got married and had Angie, their only child. May was a foodie. While she was a slow eater, she could eat ... if you gave her enough time :-) and often loved to try new and different things. If she loved the food - great! And if she didn't, it was &quot;different&quot; and that was okay, too! May also loved to travel and visited most of Canada and Europe (east and west), the US, Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, China (as a tourist about 30 years after she left), and several other Caribbean countries (mostly via cruises) - trying all the native cuisines as she went! On a trip to Hawaii, she contracted pneumonia and never fully recovered since that bout activated a &quot;superbug&quot; in her lungs that was likely due to having contracted tuberculosis as a child. She battled recurring respiratory attacks after that, Alzheimer's (with which she had been diagnosed a few years ago) and chronic depression, and she ultimately succumbed to a combination of these three things around 5:30PM on November 25 at Toronto General Hospital. Her only grandchildren, Keagan (9) and Caite (6), were the loves of her life and she loved nothing more than to see them and watch them grow up. When Keagan was first born, she used to travel 3 hours a day from her place to visit him every week! Unfortunately, by the time Caite was born, May wasn't strong enough to make that same trip weekly, but continued to see her and Keagan as much as she could. May is also survived by her loving daughter Angie, son-in-law Jim, nieces and nephews Stephen (Helene), Christine (Barry), Robert (Lorraine), May (Jim), James (Mimi), Alice (Alfred), sister-in-law Mei Lin, and husband Eddy. If you would like to honour May's memory, please eat at a new restaurant, or try a new dish at an old favourite, or try a new recipe at home and then proclaim whether you like it or it's &quot;different&quot;! In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in May's memory to the Yee Hong Geriatric Centre where May volunteered for many years. http://www.yeehong.com/foundation/donate_now.php</div>