Gin Park Woo

1948 - 2017

Gin Park Woo obituary, 1948-2017, Silver Spring, MD

BORN

1948

DIED

2017

FUNERAL HOME

Fort Lincoln Funeral Home

3401 BLADENSBURG RD

Brentwood, Maryland

Gin Woo Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers on May 30, 2017.

Gin Park Woo, a hardworking Chinese immigrant who came to this country at 22, went to work at a restaurant in Washington, D.C.’s Chinatown and spent the last 18 years working for Montgomery County Public Schools, died May 29, 2017 at Washington Adventist Hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was 68-years-old.



Born in Canton, China on October 25,1948 to the late Wai Lun Woo (Mother) and Fay Jim Woo (Father), Gin was one of four children and the only son. After the Communist party came to power in 1949, the whole family fled to Hong Kong. Gin’s father left for the United States in the 1950s to find work to support the family, leaving Gin’s mother to raise Gin and his siblings in Hong Kong. The family finally reunited in 1970 when they joined their father in Washington, DC, where he was running a carry-out restaurant on 9th Street, N.W.



On April 6, 1977 Gin married his wife Yee Ling in Hong Kong and brought her to live in Silver Spring, Maryland. In December 1983, their daughter Amy was born.



Gin was known to those around him as a very kind, generous, quiet, caring and easy-going person. In 1999, Gin took a job as a building service worker at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, MD. He loved his work and was greatly admired by the school. “He was a quiet man, who was a great worker and a very good person. When he found out a colleague lived nearby, he ended up driving her to work every day so that she didn’t have to take a much longer bus ride,” said Angel Delgado, Churchill’s building services manager. “We will miss him very much.”



Gin Park Woo is survived by: his wife Yee Ling Woo, daughter Amy Woo, sister Grace Kwan (late brother in law Bill Kwan), sister Wai Kam Fong (brother in law Sai Fong), sister Shoo Yen (brother in law Wilson Fong), nieces Linda Kwan, Jessica Kwan, Linda Fong Smallheer (nephew in law Joseph Smallheer), Sharon Fong, Karen Fong, nephews (late John Fong), Stephen Fong, great nieces Mia Smallheer, Alyssa Smallheer, Emma Smallheer. He is also survived by many cousins and other relatives.



He will be missed by all of his family, friends, and coworkers.



A memorial service will be held Sunday, June 11 at 11 a.m. at Fort Lincoln Funeral Home, 3401 Bladensburg Road, Brentwood, Maryland 20722, with burial immediately following at Fort Lincoln Cemetery. The service will be preceded by a viewing at 10 a.m.













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June 1, 2017

Cindy Hillard

I knew Mr. Woo at Churchill. He was always so wonderful and I always smiled when I saw him. He will be missed. My thoughts and prayers go out to all of his family.

June 1, 2017

Jesse Smith

I am saddened I only was able to get to know Gin over the last year at Churchill High School. He was a wonderful man who was an amazingly hardworking and reliable person. My prayers go out to all of the family!

June 1, 2017

Scott Rivinius

I have tremendous respect for Mr. Woo and I am very sorry for your family's loss. He was a kind man who I enjoyed working with the past six years. He was always helpful and cared about those around him. I offer my deepest condolences to your family.

June 1, 2017

Mary

My sincere condolences. (Psalm 29:11)

May 31, 2017

Fort Lincoln Funeral Home Staff

The Staff of Fort Lincoln Funeral Home wishes to express to you, your family and friends, our sincere and deepest condolences on the loss of your loved one. Please know those we love remain with us for love itself lives on, and cherished memories never fade because a loved one's gone. Those we love can never be more than a thought apart, for as long as there is memory, they'll live on in the heart. (Mary Ramish)

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