Cindy Pui-Suen Kung

Cindy was always happiest when she was outdoors: on the ocean, on lakes, or in the mountains. The Pacific Northwest, where she spent most of her adult life, was the ideal home for her. For many years in Victoria (BC), Seattle, and Vancouver, she paddled with the local dragon boat teams and later on, in outrigger canoes. Weekends would usually find her walking the wooded trails around Victoria or Burnaby, hiking up one of the mountains in the Cascade Range, just East of Seattle, or even ascending Mount St. Helens via an underground lava tube.

Taking up karate during her university years, she progressed to the level of brown belt while living in Washington State, before retiring to pursue her other sports.

Cindy also enjoyed travelling. In recent years, she had visited California, Oregon, Alaska and Hawaii, where her outdoor pursuits were given fresh new surroundings. She also travelled to Paris and Belgium, where she indulged her appreciation for fine art, architecture, museums, and history (and of course, coffee—ideally sipped while sitting at a sidewalk cafe).

Cindy's free time included many other creative hobbies and interests: playing piano, reading mysteries, folding origami, analog and digital photography, knitting, pottery, painting, and making handmade books. Recently, while living in rural Alberta, she added angling for trout to her list of pastimes.

Cindy attended Queens University, and later, the University of Alberta, graduating in 1997 with a BSc in Occupational Therapy. She practised in Texas, Victoria (BC), Vancouver, Seattle, and Surrey (BC) during her career, where her skills were directed towards helping both the young and elderly improve and make the most of their abilities in their work and daily lives. Before retiring, Cindy achieved her goal of using her skills with computers to transition into the healthcare IT field.

Cindy showed incredible bravery and strength and even, at times, humour, while battling a series of brain tumours over the final 13 years of her life which gradually, but relentlessly, stole her mind and body from her.

Cindy was predeceased by her father, Po Kee Kung, in 1986. Cindy is survived by her loving partner, Michael; her mother, Ping; and her brother, Jason. Cindy also leaves behind a very large, but close and caring extended family of aunts, uncles, and cousins who provided support throughout her life, as well as many friends in the Edmonton, Puget Sound, and Lower Mainland areas.

The family wishes to thank the Homecare staff, the AHS palliative homecare nursing team, and the staff of Pilgrims Hospice for delivering amazing care and support for Cindy during her final months, despite the challenges caused by the ongoing pandemic.

The family wishes to thank the Homecare staff, the AHS palliative homecare nursing team, and the staff of Pilgrims Hospice for delivering amazing care and support for Cindy during her final months, despite the challenges caused by the ongoing pandemic.

A visitation for Cindy will be held Wednesday, October 13, 2021 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Hainstock's Funeral Home & Crematorium, 9810- 34th Ave, Edmonton, AB T6E6L1.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.hainstockedmunton.com for the Kung family.