Koon L. Chiang's Obituary
The Life of Lai Koon Leung
Ms. Lai Koon Leung was a very gentle, kind, diligent sister that loved God. She valued family relationships, expressed in her love and care for her descendants. She was born in China's Guang Dong Province Shun De County, on January 9th,1926. She was born into a poor family with many brothers and sisters. Her mother passed away when she was very young because of a fatal illness. When she was only a few years old, her father gave her to the wealthy Ho family because he was unable to take care of her. In 1945, at the age of nineteen, she married the twenty years old Mr. Yao Bong Lee. Her newlywed husband, because of his youthful ignorance, likes to hang out with the rich and powerful people in their village. Trying to gain the favor of some local National Government officials, he was misled into joining a raid to suppress bandits. Unfortunately, he was shot to death during the crossfire of this raid. Ms. Leung was already pregnant when her newlywed husband passed away. In 1946, she gave birth to her posthumous son, Mr. Hung Wai Lee.
Because there was a huge change in China's political powers, Ms. Leung took her three-year-old son to Hong Kong in 1949 to seek refuge with her sister-in-law. When she first arrived in Hong Kong, she left her son in the care of her sister-in-law so that she could work as a domestic servant to make a living. A few years later, she changed jobs to work on a chicken farm where she met her second husband, Mr. Cheung Sheng Chiang. Mr. Chiang immigrated to New York City in the early 1960s. In 1978, he applied for Sister Leung to come to the United States, and they officially got married. After she came to the United States, in addition to working hard to take care of her family, she worked as a seamstress in New York’s Chinatown until she retired. She was illiterate for lack of an education, but she worked hard using her sewing skills to help support her family’s financial needs. She was filial to her mother-in-law, obedient to her husband, and treated her three stepchildren as if they were her own.
Ms. Leung was a traditional Chinese woman who used to follow all the Chinese customs such as ancestor worship and idol worship. In the year 2000, the classmate of her daughter-in-law, Ms. Shuet Fun Yiu, took her to attend church activities at Overseas Chinese Missions (OCM) in New York's Chinatown. Slowly she began to know the Lord Jesus. In 2009, she made the decision to accept Christ Jesus as her personal Savior. She was baptized in OCM the same year. She loved the Lord even more after she was baptized. She used her limited abilities to know the Lord better and built a strong relationship with Him. She insisted on going to church every week to worship God and participate in fellowships.
Mr. Cheung Sheng Chiang passed away in 2012 due to an illness, therefore she lived alone for several years in New York City. In 2015, she moved from New York to the Bay Area so that her son could take care of her. She enjoyed the blessings of having four generations under roof for several years. Unfortunately, she accidentally fell in the backyard of her home in 2020, which broke her hip and needed surgical care. Following her doctor's advice, her family arranged for her to be discharged from the hospital into post acute nursing care. From that time on she needed round-the-clock professional care, because she was unable to take care of herself and had other medical issues such as dementia. On the early morning of March 3rd, 2024,she passed away at the age of ninety-eight due to the weakening of her body. Our Lord had mercy on her and took her back to heaven where she can rest in peace. May Sister Lai Koon Leung rest in peace in the arms of Our Lord. We have the hope that we will see our beloved sister again in heaven.
梁麗娟姊妹生平
梁麗娟女士是一位非常温柔、慈祥、勤力和愛主的姊妹。她看重家庭關係，尤其對子孫的關愛。她出生於1926年1月9日，在中國廣東省順德的縣水藤村。童年時，她的家景貧窮，兄弟姊妹眾多，母親也在她很小的時候因病去世。當她只有幾歲的時候，她的父親因無力照顧她，將她送給一戶姓何的大戶人家收養。1945年，十九歲的她嫁給了當時二十歲的李耀邦先生。她的新婚丈夫因年少無知，喜歡與土豪和權貴接觸。他為了巴结當地國民政府官員，被人誤導與一群烏合之眾去剿匪。在這場槍戰中，他不幸喪生。新婚丈夫去世時，梁姊妹己懷有新孕。她在1946年生下懷腹子李鴻懷先生。
因為中國政治權力的改變，在1949年梁姊妹帶著三歲的兒子到香港投靠她丈夫的妹妹。 剛到香港的時候，為了生活，她把兒子交給丈夫的妹妹照顧，出去打住家工。數年後，她轉工到一間養雞農場工作認識了她的第二任丈夫蒋張盛先生。蒋先生在60年代初移民到美國紐約市，1978年申請梁姊妹來美與他正式结婚。梁姊妹來美後，除了努力照顧家人，更在紐約唐人街當一名縫紉女工直到她退休。 因她沒有接受教育所以閱讀能力有限，但她仍然勤力工作，經濟上支持家裡的需要。她對家婆孝順，對丈夫順服，視三名繼子女如同己出。
她是一個傳統的中國婦人，遵循所有中國人的習俗如拜祖先和拜偶像。在2000年，她媳婦李饒雪芬女士的同學開始帶她去纽约唐人街的中華海外宣道會參加教會活動。她慢慢地開始認識主耶稣。在2009年，她決志接納和承認主耶稣為她的個人救主，在眾人面前接受洗禮。她受洗以後更愛主，她用她有限的能力來更認識主並與祂建立關係。她堅持每星期都返教會崇拜及參加團契。
蒋張盛先生在2012年因病去世，因此她在紐約獨居了幾年。在2015年，她從紐約搬到灣區，方便兒子照顧她。享受了幾年四代同堂的福氣。可惜在2020年她不小心在家的後院跌倒，家人聽從醫生意見在出院後直接送她往療養院。那時因她不能自理，而且有腦退化症，她需要全天候的護理。 2024年3月3日凌晨，因為她的身體太虛弱，主憐憫她接她回天家安息主懷，享壽九十八歲。願梁麗娟姊妹在主懷得享安息，期望在天國與她再相見。
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