Thanh Nhat Nguyen

Thanh was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, the son of Giang Nguyen and Lan Thi Pham on January 7, 1965. He was the only son with four sisters. The Nguyen family moved from Nha Trang to Saigon before emigrating to the US in 1975. Thanh attended Redmond Elementary, Middle, and then graduated from Redmond High School in 1983. He went on and studied at Bellevue Community College and Seattle Central Community College, then graduated from the University of Washington with an Industrial Engineering degree. After graduating, he landed a job at Boeing in his field, later becoming a senior engineer at the company.

He met Nhan Thai in high school where he worked part-time at Overlake Hospital and married in 1991. Then they went on to have two beautiful daughters, Samantha and Erika Nguyen-Thai.

In 2017, Thanh retired from Boeing and traveled around the world especially Asia, devoting his time to his favorite hobbies such as trying new and exotic foods and pastries. His other favorite hobbies include tennis, one-wheel boarding around the neighborhood, singing, walking with family and friends in the summer, skiing, and snowboarding in the beautiful puffy snow in the mountains around Washington, Idaho, and Canada in the winter.

Thanh is predeceased by his mother Lan Thi Pham and his father Giang Nguyen. He is survived by his lifelong partner Nhan Thai, daughters Samantha and Erika Nguyen-Thai, and his sisters and their families - his oldest sister, Minh Duc, Phi Van and her husband, Giang (John) Nguyen, and their children, Andrew and Alissa, Tu Quyen and her husband, Quoc Ta, and their children, Cara and Jason, and his youngest sister, Tuha and her husband, Tony Dondero.

A memorial service for Thanh will be held at the Sunset Hills Memorial Park & Funeral Home on December 8 from 10:30 am - 11:00 am (Visitation) and 11:00 am - 1:00 pm (Funeral Service).

There are no goodbyes for us, wherever you are, you are always in our hearts.

-Mahatma Gandhi