Of Boston - May 16, 2022 - Devoted wife of the late Frank Chin. Beloved Mother of 4 sons; Chuck and his late wife, Rebecca, Robert and Mona, David and Judy, and John and Judy. Cherished Grandmother to Brenda, Norman, Renee, Lisa and Eric Scott, Matthew, Jessica, Michelle and Matthew Ferrera, Cory, Holly, and Andrew. Revered Great-Grandmother to Kayla and Bobby Scott, and Trynity Ferrera. Dear sister-in-law to Betty Eng (Philadelphia, PA) and Pancie Chow (Perris, CA). She is also survived by many loving nieces and nephews.
Lin Cho Chin was born in Toisan, China in 1922 and had an arranged marriage in 1940. Her two oldest sons were born in Toisan and she took primary care of them when her husband Frank returned to the United States. In 1951, she was separated from her sons, imprisoned, and tortured for a three-month period, as a result of Communist China’s Land Reform Movement. She was then placed under house arrest for over a year and forced into hard labor. After being freed in 1952, she took her two sons first to Guangzhou, China, then to Kowloon, Hong Kong, and finally immigrated to the United States in 1956 to reunite the family with her husband in Washington, DC.
With the addition of two more sons, in 1960 the family settled in Boston, where she became a skilled seamstress in Boston’s Chinatown. She worked tirelessly, always bringing home work to do on weekday evenings and weekends, until she retired in 1989. In addition, she became a proud naturalized U.S. Citizen in 1980.
After living in Tai Tung Village in Boston’s Chinatown for over 35 years, she became a resident of the Bear Mountain Parkway Health and Rehab nursing facility in West Roxbury in 2014 at the age of 92. The entire Chin family would like to express their gratitude to all of the China Garden Unit medical team and the entire staff of the nursing facility during her stay over the past 7 ½ years.
Like many other Chinese Americans who immigrated to the United States from southern China, she overcame many hardships to reunite with her immediate family and helped many others in her extended family. Lin Cho Chin was able to celebrate her 100th birthday with family both near and far on Easter Sunday. She lived a full and long life, and has passed on many happy memories and values of family devotion, resilience, and perseverance across several generations.
She will be interred at the Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston on June 4th, 2022.
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