Tingsun Timothy Huang's Obituary
Tingsun (Tim) Huang was born on December 31, 1936 in a little village in Hukou town, Hsin-Chu county, Taiwan. He was the first born to Te-Chi Huang and Yi-Ying Tseng Huang. He was the big brother to seven younger sisters and one younger brother.
Tingsun was a very good student from the early years. He passed the entrance exam to attend a junior high school out of town, he then passed a more intense entrance exam to attend one of the top five-year technical junior college in Taipei. It required him to get up very early every day in order for him to catch the train that would take him to school on time, during those junior high school and junior college years. His mother and grandmother would accompany him walking to the train station in the pitch dark early morning hours every school day.
He studied civil engineering at the Taipei Institute of technology (now the national Taipei university of technology). After he graduated from college in1957, he full filled his military service duty before joining the civil engineering team to help build Taiwan’s first multi-purpose water project, the Shihmen Dam (stone gate dam), that completed in 1964.
Tingsun then forged ahead, studied English and prepared to come to the United States for graduate school. His hard work fulfilled his dream of coming to the United States. In 1965 he was accepted by University of Colorado’s civil engineering department in Boulder with full scholarship to work on his master’s degree. He then went on to work on his phD at CU. He was hired by General Electric in San Jose after he earned his phD degree and moved the family to the Bay Area in 1972.
Tingsun was a model immigrant who worked hard and tried hard to fit in in his new homeland. He also realized that he could make a difference for his younger siblings’ lives by helping them to immigrant to the states for a better life. He became the anchor of the family that grew into a big clan over half of a century. He now has earned the title as the first Huang clan ancestor in America.
Other than being a great scholar and an accomplished engineer, Tingsun was also an artist who enjoyed watercolor painting in his spare time.
Tingsun will be missed by his sons Tom (wife Debi) and Victor (wife Alice); his grandchildren Jack, Nick, Samantha and Ian; his siblings Janet Lin, Manyuan Chang, Celia Chen (husband Dengbo), Luke Huang (Wife Meiling), Chiuyuan Chen (Husband Yang-Hua) and Alice Su (Husband Chin); and his nephews, nieces, grandnephews and grandnieces.
If you were thinking of sending something, please send a donation in Tingsun Huang’s name to the Alzheimer’s Association: www.alz.org
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