Pittsburg, PA
Hoa Thi Wirick Obituary (2022) East Bay Times
Hoa Thi (Jeanne) Wirick
December 24, 1937 – April 16, 2022
Resident of Pittsburg
Jeanne, as she most popular to be recognized, suffered the final 5 years from osteoporosis in her backbone, and from dementia. She fought valiantly however ultimately her physique may resist not. Now she is past all ache and is reunited with household and buddies who’ve preceded her.
Childhood struggles in Vietnam throughout World Warfare II and the struggle with the French made her very sturdy in physique and thoughts, shaping her spirit and braveness all the time. She succeeded in changing into very self-sufficient and impartial all through her life. Jeanne additionally achieved United States citizenship in 1976 throughout our Bicentennial Yr.
Courageous sufficient to depart her homeland for the USA to hitch husband Larry and to start a brand new life, Jeanne knew she wanted to be taught a marketable talent to assist assist her enterprise into the brand new world. Having ready to tailor, she was prepared to just accept a place at Nordstrom’s in Walnut Creek when it opened in 1984. Jeanne was proud to serve there over thirty years and to have helped prepare many others within the tremendous artwork of alterations to completed clothes. She shaped many enduring friendships at Nordstrom’s through the years and actually loved every of them.
Jeanne cherished to journey and expertise so a lot of life’s blessings. Travels took her again to Vietnam many instances; there have been cruises to the Bahamas and Hawaii; and, excursions in Europe and China. Stateside she was blessed with the power to go to New York Metropolis, New Orleans, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, Reno, San Francisco, Dallas, and Honolulu. Regardless of her wanderlust she at all times turned homesick for California inside two weeks.
Anybody who knew her additionally knew that Jeanne was an exquisite prepare dinner. She at all times loved entertaining company at house to a big number of Vietnamese dishes. Pot luck lunches on the Nordstrom Alteration Store concerned dishes from many alternative international locations and Jeanne acquired the recipes from her co-workers so she may imitate them and even attempt to enhance them.
Jeanne is survived by her loving husband Larry, son Kelly, granddaughter Victoria, and grandson Kelvin. She can even be missed by her many relations in Vietnam and America who’re too many to be recognized right here. Jeanne additionally shall be missed by many buddies throughout her adopted homeland, the USA.
Jeanne would wish to commend all of the employees members at Penny’s Visitor Residence for her care throughout 4 months there, and likewise the extraordinary docs, nurses, hospice aides, therapists and different assist employees at Brun’s Home in Alamo for being her angels since late January.
Visitation shall be held on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 from 2:00pm to six:00pm on the Pittsburg Funeral Chapel. Buddhist companies Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 10:00am on the Pittsburg Funeral Chapel. Burial following at Reminiscence Gardens Cemetery in Harmony.
December 24, 1937 – April 16, 2022
Resident of Pittsburg
Jeanne, as she most popular to be recognized, suffered the final 5 years from osteoporosis in her backbone, and from dementia. She fought valiantly however ultimately her physique may resist not. Now she is past all ache and is reunited with household and buddies who’ve preceded her.
Childhood struggles in Vietnam throughout World Warfare II and the struggle with the French made her very sturdy in physique and thoughts, shaping her spirit and braveness all the time. She succeeded in changing into very self-sufficient and impartial all through her life. Jeanne additionally achieved United States citizenship in 1976 throughout our Bicentennial Yr.
Courageous sufficient to depart her homeland for the USA to hitch husband Larry and to start a brand new life, Jeanne knew she wanted to be taught a marketable talent to assist assist her enterprise into the brand new world. Having ready to tailor, she was prepared to just accept a place at Nordstrom’s in Walnut Creek when it opened in 1984. Jeanne was proud to serve there over thirty years and to have helped prepare many others within the tremendous artwork of alterations to completed clothes. She shaped many enduring friendships at Nordstrom’s through the years and actually loved every of them.
Jeanne cherished to journey and expertise so a lot of life’s blessings. Travels took her again to Vietnam many instances; there have been cruises to the Bahamas and Hawaii; and, excursions in Europe and China. Stateside she was blessed with the power to go to New York Metropolis, New Orleans, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, Reno, San Francisco, Dallas, and Honolulu. Regardless of her wanderlust she at all times turned homesick for California inside two weeks.
Anybody who knew her additionally knew that Jeanne was an exquisite prepare dinner. She at all times loved entertaining company at house to a big number of Vietnamese dishes. Pot luck lunches on the Nordstrom Alteration Store concerned dishes from many alternative international locations and Jeanne acquired the recipes from her co-workers so she may imitate them and even attempt to enhance them.
Jeanne is survived by her loving husband Larry, son Kelly, granddaughter Victoria, and grandson Kelvin. She can even be missed by her many relations in Vietnam and America who’re too many to be recognized right here. Jeanne additionally shall be missed by many buddies throughout her adopted homeland, the USA.
Jeanne would wish to commend all of the employees members at Penny’s Visitor Residence for her care throughout 4 months there, and likewise the extraordinary docs, nurses, hospice aides, therapists and different assist employees at Brun’s Home in Alamo for being her angels since late January.
Visitation shall be held on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 from 2:00pm to six:00pm on the Pittsburg Funeral Chapel. Buddhist companies Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 10:00am on the Pittsburg Funeral Chapel. Burial following at Reminiscence Gardens Cemetery in Harmony.
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