Jean Choy Lou

Jean Choy Lou is survived by her kids Mitchell (Priscilla) and Jon (Carina), as well as, her 3 grandchildren - Dana (Fred), Marcie (Kyle), Jon Cory (JC) and 2 great grandchildren - Riley and Sawyer. All of those she loved and touched deeply.

Jean Choy Lou was born to Han Xiong Xu and Yue Chan Hu on December 06, 1926 in Sam Que Lee, Hoiping, Kwangtung, China. Mom had 5 brothers and 2 sisters.

Mom married my dad, Bill Lou on July 18, 1947. With time the family grew, Mickey Roy Lou, Mitchell Taylor Lou, and Jon Douglas Lou. Mom was the kindest person I have ever known. She always tried to please everyone. Even as kids, whenever Mickey, Mitchell or I would argue as children, she would somehow find none of us wrong.

Mickey passed in 2005. And then dad passed in 2012. It was then Mom came to live with my wife, Carina, my son, Jon Cory Lou and me. We were excited mom came to live us.

Mom’s life was very simple. Mom enjoyed watching the Price is Right, playing cards, reading the Bible, reading the Chinese newspaper, going to Fellowship at Southwest Chinese Baptist Church on Wednesday and enjoying her grandchildren Dana, Marcie, Jon Cory (JC) and her great grandchildren, Riley and Sawyer.

Whenever mom watched the Price is Right, we could always tell when mom didn’t agree with the contestant’s price guess. We could hear mom telling them the price was wrong. Mom liked playing cards, but not poker or blackjack, but solitaire. Mom could play solitaire all day. Once in a while JC would go into her room and ask mom for any 4 cards. My son would add them up and always miss add the cards on purpose. Then he would hand grandmother the same 4 cards to add up and she would tell him, he was wrong. She never lost her edge.

Mom also enjoyed keeping up with the world news. So we made many trips to Chinatown to get her the Chinese newspaper. Some days we were so busy, we couldn’t make it to Chinatown. So mom being very clever, she would say she was out of chewing gum and needed to go to the store. We knew what she really wanted.

On weekends, we would usually, take mom out to eat, knowing she must be tired of my TexChinese cooking. While we were out, mom would say, that since we were so close to Chinatown let’s go get the Chinese newspaper. I guess she didn’t realize we were closer to Galveston than Chinatown.

After Mom had lived with us for awhile, I discovered my wife, Carina knew Chinese. Carina constantly checked on mom, making sure she ate, that she took her medicine, taking care of what Mom needed. She was like a daughter to Mom. One day I heard her talking to Carina. Mom started out in English but switched to Chinese. Thinking I needed to go to mom’s room to translate I headed upstairs, but before I got to Mom’s room Carina met me on the stairs and told me we needed to go shopping. Mom wanted some new clothes. Carina understood what Mom wanted. From that day on, I didn’t have to worry if mom and my wife had hard time communicating.

One tradition my son is especially going to miss with his grandmother is Christmas. After the Christmas tree was set up, it was JC and his grandmother who would decorate the tree together.

Mom we love you. We are not saying goodbye, but we are saying we will see you later.

In lieu of flowers, the family requested donations to be made to S.W. Chinese Baptist Church, 12525 Sugar Ridge Blvd, Stafford, TX 77477.