Born Sook Cha Yoo in Jeonju, South Korea on January 17, 1942 to Chong Nam Yoo and Kwi Um Choi. Sook Cha graduated from nursing school and went on to work at Presbyterian Medical Center (Jeonju Yaesu Hospital) where she would meet her future husband Young Whan Lieu. They were wed on February 14, 1969 and were blessed with a son the following year.
She emigrated to America to work as a registered nurse at Peninsula Hospital in Far Rockaway, Queens under an H1-B visa program. Leaving behind her husband and one year old son, she worked hard and sacrificed to make a place for her family to join her the following year. The happy couple were soon blessed with three daughters in consecutive years. Sook Cha Lieu also owned and operated several small businesses with her husband. These years as a nurse, a business owner, a wife and a mother were filled with all of life's victories and challenges and Sook Cha embraced everything that came her way until 1998. When her husband passed way in 1998, she was inconsolable and mourned his passing for several years. Then in 2002, after several years of mourning, Sook Cha began travelling the world and discovering who she was outside the context of nurse, business owner, wife and mother.
Sook Cha welcomed her first grandchildren in 2010 and retired from her travels to help raise her grandchildren without hesitation or regret. She had waited her entire life to be a grandmother, and she was very good at it.
Sook Cha's wisdom and advice will be sorely missed. Her hard work and sacrifice serve as a guiding example for the children she leaves behind.
A visitación for Sookcha will be held Sunday, August 8, 2021 from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM at RIVERSIDE NASSAU NORTH CHAPELS, 55 North Station Plaza, Great Neck, New York 11021. A graveside service will occur Monday, August 9, 2021 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at ALl Saints Cemetery, 855 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck, NY 11024.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.riversidenassaunorthchapels.com for the Lieu family.
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