Lang Dang's Obituary
Lang Dang, 80, originally an immigrant from South Vietnam, passed away on December 4, 2016 in San Leandro, California.Funeral service will be held in the Pacific Chapel of Skylawn Funeral Home and Memorial Park on December 12, 2016 at 10:30 am. The funeral service format will respectfully be a customary Chinese Buddhist ceremony presented in Cantonese with traditional cultural rituals and customs. Burial will immediately follow at Skylawn Memorial Park.Lang was born in South Vietnam to Tich Dang and Huu Diep on June 24, 1936. Lang grew up and was raised in South Vietnam where she received the equivalent of a junior high school education. Lang was married in 1966 to Ha Wong. In Vietnam she worked as a secretary in a fabric factory and sold clothing in flea markets to help support her family. Lang immigrated with her family to the United States in 1981 where they initially spent time in the San Diego area before moving to Northern California’s East Bay Area. In addition to being both a housewife and mother, she found employment in the United States as a factory worker for a packaging company, a babysitter, and a seamstress to help raise and provide for her family. Lang was a skillful seamstress as she enjoyed sewing, knitting, crocheting and embroidery work. As a mother, like many hardworking mothers, Lang was very frugal when it came to spending on herself and yet she made every effort to be generous to others while doing her best to provide for her own children. She was such a sentimental woman that her keepsakes consisted of her children’s clothing, books, blankets, photos, gifts, and other similar items as they grew up from infancy through adulthood. She had an unassuming, quiet and gentle spirit that would not allow her to impose or inconvenience anyone. Even during difficult times, she still loved her children and grandchildren more than one could ever imagine.Often we take life for granted, but upon reflection this journey that we call “life” truly is a gift. Life gives the soul a chance, the chance to live, to learn, to experience, to love, to wonder, to plan, to dream, and to have opportunities to better understand ourselves and the world we live in and hopefully along the way we get the chance to make it a better place. But no matter who you are, life is guaranteed to get messy, to have its share of challenges in the form of adversities, heartaches, setbacks, failures, and hardships; Lang’s life was no exception. She had the courage to face her challenges and accept them and was willing to do it everyday, and continued to do it everyday because it meant a better life, not for herself, but for her family. Though small in stature she had one of the biggest hearts you could ever meet. In her later years, Lang would often take trips on her own but most of all she loved spending time with friend, family, and relatives whenever she could.Lang is survived by her husband Ha Wong, son Kenneth Wong, daughter-in-law Linh Wong, two grandsons Michael Wong and Patrick Wong, daughter Kim Wong, son-in-law Ken Gong.
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