Natalie Nguyet Thi Nguyen

A visitation for Natalie will be held Thursday, July 28, 2022 from 4:30 PM to 8:00 PM at Oak Hill Funeral Home & Memorial Park, 300 Curtner Ave, San Jose, CA 95125. A visitation will occur Friday, July 29, 2022 from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM, 300 Curtner Ave, San Jose, CA 95125. A funeral service will occur Saturday, July 30, 2022 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, 750 Sequoia Dr,, Milpitas,, CA 95035. A committal service will occur Saturday, July 30, 2022 from 12:30 PM to 1:00 PM at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, 22555 Cristo Rey Dr, Los Altos, CA 95124.

With profound sadness we announce the passing, on July 2, 2022, at 2:22AM, of Natalie

Nguyễn Thị Nguyệt, our loving and devoted daughter, wife, mother, sister, and aunt to

all whose lives she touched. Natalie is survived by her mother, her husband, her two

children, her two step-children, her step-grandchild, and her seven siblings and their

families.

She left us after an enduring and courageous thirteen-year battle with cancer, at her

home in San Jose, CA, surrounded by many of her loved ones and close friends. She

was in her 67th year. Natalie was born June 6, 1955, in Đông-Hà, Quảng-Trị, Vietnam.

She spent her formative years in Huế, and attended the All-Girls Đồng Khánh High

School. Her upbringing was significantly influenced by the imperial city’s traditions

and teaching, as well as by the devastation of the war and civil conflicts of the time.

Upon the fall of Saigon in 1975, she fled by boat with her family to a refugee camp in

Singapore and later settled in Springfield, MO. As the second oldest child of eight

siblings, Natalie shouldered most of the responsibilities, holding several jobs to help the

family adapt and thrive in their new land. Yet with determination, she was still able to

attend college, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, having attended Drury

College (now Drury University) and Southwest Missouri State University (now

Missouri State University). During her last semester in college, she helped her parents

open the first Vietnamese-owned restaurant in the region and successfully managed its

operations and expansion for 17 years.

Natalie faithfully participated in the annual Marian Days pilgrimage every year at the

Congregation of the Mother of the Redeemer in nearby Carthage, MO. It was here

where her devotion to Mother Mary deepened, and her spiritual growth firmly

germinated.

In 1995, the family relocated to San Jose, CA where she helped set up and manage her

brother and his wife’s medical clinic & plastic surgery center in San Jose and Milpitas,

CA. A few years later, she met her husband Phil and they have been married for 21 yrs.

Despite all the trials and tribulations of life, Natalie’s faith in God never wavered. Most

notably, her spiritual growth took an exponential leap forward after joining the Cursillo

Movement. The authenticity of her trust in God was most clearly revealed during the

final agonizing days of illness. She was at peace. She was ready to go “home” with

“Thầy Chí Thánh”.

Natalie might be gone from sight, but she lives on forever in our hearts. May God rest

her soul.

In Memoriam, Natalie’s Family