Chen-Yung Chang Bow 張誠榮

Chang Chen Yung張誠榮 passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, July 23. She was 100 years old.

Chang Chen Yung was born in Hefei合肥, Anhui安徽 Province China, on February 3, 1922. She was the middle child, between two brothers. Her father passed away when she was eight years old. Her mother raised her and her two brothers. Growing up, her family was very close with her mother’s brother’s family and spent summers with them. Chang Chen Yung graduated from Hefei Sixth Junior High School合肥六女中 in Hefei where she was an excellent athlete and played on the basketball team –which she later said was the source of her longevity.

Due to the Japanese invasion of China抗日戰爭, her family fled to Guilin桂林 first and then settled in Kunming昆明. She attended Guilin High School桂林女中 in Guilin. Later she met her husband, Bow Too鮑鐸 in Kunming where they had their first child, Bow Rouh Tyan鮑若田, in 1944. After the end of the Second World War, they temporarily returned to Anhui and eventually emigrated to Taipei台北 in 1947. After Bow Rouh Tyan, she had three daughters: Bow Li鮑儷, born in Hengshanqiao繁昌縣橫山橋 in 1946, Bow Mien鮑勉, born in Taipei in 1948, and Bow Wen鮑雯, born in Taipei in 1951. With four children to feed, Chang Chen Yung taught herself how to cook from a newspaper recipe column and mastered everything from egg tarts to rolled tofu skin to sausages made from scratch. Each Lunar New Year the whole family looked forward to her delicious sticky rice meatballs糯米圓子.

After her children completed college in Taiwan, her son and two younger daughters emigrated to America for graduate school. Chang Chen Yung and her husband followed in 1975, settling in Los Angeles with their son. She spent most of the 1980s and 1990s in Redondo Beach and Palos Verdes helping raise her grandchildren. She had seven grandchildren and one great granddaughter. Her hobbies included baking, sewing, and gardening; she cultivated lush, fragrant roses outdoors and perfect orchids indoors. She genuinely cared about people and was universally loved.

In lieu of flowers or a memorial gift, the Bow family appreciates donations to Zigen滋根 https://www.zigenfund.org/donate or SOAR樹華 https://soarfoundation.net/en/home/ in memory of Chang Chen Yung張誠榮.