CHANG, Betty (KUO SHU)

KUO SHU, CHANGE, MASUDA

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 7/5/2018 at 23:33:58

Obituary ~ Betty (Kuo Shu) Chang
March 13, 1929 ~ March 23, 2018

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Monday, April 23, 2018

MASON CITY -- Betty S. Chang, wife of Luke C. Chang, a former Mason City internist with the Independent Medical and Surgical Group, died in Sacramento, CA., surrounded by all of her children and grandchildren, on March 23, 2018. She had lived in Sacramento with her daughter, Linda Chang Masuda, since the death of her husband on June 1,1989, but always thought of Mason City where she raised her family from 1960 -1988 as home. She was an active community member, especially at the MacNider Art Museum, where she took many ceramics classes, taught Chinese calligraphy, basketry and macrame, and funded the Chang Gallery of the museum in memory of her husband. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the Chang Memorial Acquisitions Fund, Charles H. MacNider Art Museum, 303 Second St. SE., Mason City, Iowa.

Condolences to the family may be expressed online at betty-s-chang.forevermissed.com.

Betty (Kuo Shu) was born in Nanping, Fukien province, China in 1929 and went to nursing school in Shanghai. She met her husband, Luke C. Chang, in Taipei, Taiwan where she was a surgical nurse and he was a physician, after both had left Communist China in 1949. When her husband moved to the United States in 1952 to continue his medical training, she stayed behind working three jobs, with her son, Michael, until they were able to join him in Iowa City in 1954. After Luke completed his medical residency at University of Iowa in 1960, the family moved to Mason City where Luke had a thriving internal medicine practice until he retired in 1988.

Betty was a wonderful cook, artist and loving mother to her three children (Michael, Linda, and Heidi) and doting “Nai Nai” to her seven grandchildren (Matthew, Jenna, Rebecca, and Sara Chang, and Luke, Mason, and Cole Masuda).

Starting a new life in two different countries, she gave her children the opportunity for a better future. In Iowa and in California, she made many friends. She will be remembered for her warm, generous and outgoing nature and will be dearly missed.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, July of 2018

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