Amy Y. Wan

Amy Yeehung Wan (So), of Houston, died Wednesday, the 20th of September 2023, after a brief illness. She was 86 years of age. She was born on the 16th of September 1937, in Hong Kong, then a British colony, to Pak Sui So and Wai King Tam.

She earned her teaching degree at the University of Hong Kong was a high school English teacher at the Ho Tung Girls’ School 1962-1967 in Hong Kong. She served as a Girl Guides Leader (Girl Scouts) while there. Yearning to see more of the world, she earned a scholarship to study at the University of Hawaii’s East-West Center, where she met William Wan whom she married on June 8, 1968 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

They moved to Canada and she earned a degree from University of Saskatchewan in Canada while seeing snow for the first time in her life. She settled in Denton, Texas in 1975 with one child and soon another on the way, and was a highly qualified volunteer with a Masters in Library Science from Texas Woman’s University (TWU) at the Denton ISD libraries, as well as running a property management business with William.

She and William made their next home in Houston in 2002 when he retired as a librarian for TWU, and enjoyed fun years with grandchildren, going to the Houston Opera, adventures with the Post Oak YMCA Seniors club, travel including with friends and family, enjoying the Houston food scene with her eating group, and improving her Tai Chi skills with the CWK club. Mrs. Wan was a member of the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Denton and Houston. She served as an elder and a Sunday School/VBS teacher at the Denton campus and a volunteer on the Houston campus.

She was generous with her time, knowledge, cooking skills and love, and will be greatly missed by all who knew her.

Survivors include her husband William of Houston, daughter Dr. Christine Wan and husband Thomas Knox, III of Houston and daughter Michelle Wan and husband Frank “Nick” Arguello, of Houston. Her legacy lives on in four grandchildren, Lindsey and Lauren Knox, and Nicholas and Frances Arguello, all of Houston.

A funeral service is to be conducted at eleven o’clock in the morning on Wednesday, the 27th of September 2023, in the Jasek Chapel of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston. Immediately following, all are invited to greet the family during a reception in the adjacent grand foyer.

The family will gather for a private interment at Forest Park Westheimer.