JOHN NGUYEN
AGE 82 YEARS
February 25, 1938 - December 4, 2020
John Nguyen of Forest Hills, NY passed away peacefully on Friday, Dec 4, 2020. He is survived by his wife Jane, son Paul of Brookline MA, son David of Manhattan NY, daughter Angela of Manhattan NY, his two twin granddaughters of Brookline MA, a sister-in-law and her husband of Richmond Hill, NY, and many nephews and nieces and extended family based primarily in California, Florida, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City.
Born as Loan Phi Nguyen in Bach Ninh Province in Vietnam in the 1930s to Nguyen Van Ky and Pham Thi Thuy, he was the youngest of eight siblings. His family relocated to South Vietnam when the country was divided in 1954 and he graduated from Saigon University with a bachelor's degree in Sociology. He served as headmaster of a Catholic secondary school in Vung Tau, and near the end of the war in 1975 he fled Vietnam via a fishing boat on which he met his future wife. They started a new life in Queens, NY and were married at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Woodhaven, Queens in Dec 1975. Starting as a door-to-door salesman for Lark Luggage, he eventually enrolled in graduate school at the New School for Social Research and earned a Master's Degree in Sociology and was a PhD Candidate under Professor Stanford Lyman. He left graduate school to serve as a social worker at Mission of the Immaculate Virgin in Staten Island, NY helping new Vietnamese refugees transition to life in America as part of the Orderly Departure Program of 1979. He earned an M.S.W. from Fordham University in 1995 and served as a social worker for the rest of his career.
Obituary provided by CENTRAL FUNERAL HOME
September 23, 2021.
AGE 82 YEARS
February 25, 1938 - December 4, 2020
John Nguyen of Forest Hills, NY passed away peacefully on Friday, Dec 4, 2020. He is survived by his wife Jane, son Paul of Brookline MA, son David of Manhattan NY, daughter Angela of Manhattan NY, his two twin granddaughters of Brookline MA, a sister-in-law and her husband of Richmond Hill, NY, and many nephews and nieces and extended family based primarily in California, Florida, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City.
Born as Loan Phi Nguyen in Bach Ninh Province in Vietnam in the 1930s to Nguyen Van Ky and Pham Thi Thuy, he was the youngest of eight siblings. His family relocated to South Vietnam when the country was divided in 1954 and he graduated from Saigon University with a bachelor's degree in Sociology. He served as headmaster of a Catholic secondary school in Vung Tau, and near the end of the war in 1975 he fled Vietnam via a fishing boat on which he met his future wife. They started a new life in Queens, NY and were married at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Woodhaven, Queens in Dec 1975. Starting as a door-to-door salesman for Lark Luggage, he eventually enrolled in graduate school at the New School for Social Research and earned a Master's Degree in Sociology and was a PhD Candidate under Professor Stanford Lyman. He left graduate school to serve as a social worker at Mission of the Immaculate Virgin in Staten Island, NY helping new Vietnamese refugees transition to life in America as part of the Orderly Departure Program of 1979. He earned an M.S.W. from Fordham University in 1995 and served as a social worker for the rest of his career.
Obituary provided by CENTRAL FUNERAL HOME
September 23, 2021.
JOHN NGUYEN
AGE 82 YEARS
February 25, 1938 - December 4, 2020
John Nguyen of Forest Hills, NY passed away peacefully on Friday, Dec 4, 2020. He is survived by his wife Jane, son Paul of Brookline MA, son David of Manhattan NY, daughter Angela of Manhattan NY, his two twin granddaughters of Brookline MA, a sister-in-law and her husband of Richmond Hill, NY, and many nephews and nieces and extended family based primarily in California, Florida, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City.
Born as Loan Phi Nguyen in Bach Ninh Province in Vietnam in the 1930s to Nguyen Van Ky and Pham Thi Thuy, he was the youngest of eight siblings. His family relocated to South Vietnam when the country was divided in 1954 and he graduated from Saigon University with a bachelor's degree in Sociology. He served as headmaster of a Catholic secondary school in Vung Tau, and near the end of the war in 1975 he fled Vietnam via a fishing boat on which he met his future wife. They started a new life in Queens, NY and were married at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Woodhaven, Queens in Dec 1975. Starting as a door-to-door salesman for Lark Luggage, he eventually enrolled in graduate school at the New School for Social Research and earned a Master's Degree in Sociology and was a PhD Candidate under Professor Stanford Lyman. He left graduate school to serve as a social worker at Mission of the Immaculate Virgin in Staten Island, NY helping new Vietnamese refugees transition to life in America as part of the Orderly Departure Program of 1979. He earned an M.S.W. from Fordham University in 1995 and served as a social worker for the rest of his career.
Obituary provided by CENTRAL FUNERAL HOME
September 23, 2021.
AGE 82 YEARS
February 25, 1938 - December 4, 2020
John Nguyen of Forest Hills, NY passed away peacefully on Friday, Dec 4, 2020. He is survived by his wife Jane, son Paul of Brookline MA, son David of Manhattan NY, daughter Angela of Manhattan NY, his two twin granddaughters of Brookline MA, a sister-in-law and her husband of Richmond Hill, NY, and many nephews and nieces and extended family based primarily in California, Florida, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City.
Born as Loan Phi Nguyen in Bach Ninh Province in Vietnam in the 1930s to Nguyen Van Ky and Pham Thi Thuy, he was the youngest of eight siblings. His family relocated to South Vietnam when the country was divided in 1954 and he graduated from Saigon University with a bachelor's degree in Sociology. He served as headmaster of a Catholic secondary school in Vung Tau, and near the end of the war in 1975 he fled Vietnam via a fishing boat on which he met his future wife. They started a new life in Queens, NY and were married at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Woodhaven, Queens in Dec 1975. Starting as a door-to-door salesman for Lark Luggage, he eventually enrolled in graduate school at the New School for Social Research and earned a Master's Degree in Sociology and was a PhD Candidate under Professor Stanford Lyman. He left graduate school to serve as a social worker at Mission of the Immaculate Virgin in Staten Island, NY helping new Vietnamese refugees transition to life in America as part of the Orderly Departure Program of 1979. He earned an M.S.W. from Fordham University in 1995 and served as a social worker for the rest of his career.
Obituary provided by CENTRAL FUNERAL HOME
September 23, 2021.
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