Birth date: May 10, 1938 Death date: Sep 5, 2020
Alan Hong Woo Leung (梁康湖), 82, of Honolulu, Hawaii, passed away on September 5, 2020. He was a retired civil engineer with the State of Hawaii Department of Transportation. While born and raised in Hong Kong, he spent the war year Read Obituary
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
― Ernest Hemingway
The Lord be with you, Alan. Your honesty and friendliness will be remembered. And may you rest in peace.
Harry Lee
(Nathan, Ivan and Ryan)
Uncle Alan, so sorry that I did not get to say good-bye to you! There were many times I thought it was about time to visit you.. Then I was pulled back to the reality that they would not allow any visitors to visit either nursing home or hosipital. I was very sad when I heard the news that you departed... I hold many fond memeries of you along with your beautiful family. As my neighbor, mentor, father figure and friend, I enjoyed each conversation and gathering we had... I felt connected very well with you because of your gentle, humble and kind spirit and the Chinese cutural heritage we share. I miss you very much! Rest in Peace Uncle Alan! I am sure you will be watching over Mrs. Leung and your family from heaven! Please say hi to Tom, my mom and his mom for me. Enjoy your party time up there! Could you do me a favor: could you ask God for me what He wants us to do and how we can pray so that this pandemic will go away? Thank you & Love you, Annie
KM "As a member and former bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Manoa Ward, I would visit Alan on many occasions. He was always so cordial and kind to me and I will miss seeing and being with him. His birthday is the same as my wife's and I know each year when that day comes along Alan will also be in my thoughts. Rest in peace, my dear friend, you lived a honorable life in every aspect and I know when the day of the Resurrection comes, it will be said to you, 'Well done, my good and faithful servant'."
I didn't realize Alan was already in his eighties. It still seemed like yesterday when I worked with Alan at State Highways Division. He was a good man and good colleague to me when I was young and restless. I knew he loved traveling after retirement, and I used one of his digital pictures of Tibet scenary as screen saver for many years. I will miss him until we meet again in heaven. Andy from China
From Peter Leung, Part 4
Mum often said the following, “Listen to your elder brothers because they are good boys”. Sometimes I might ask, “They could ask me to do things in opposite directions”. Her answer was terse, “They will not because they are my boys as you are”. She continued, “They may want you to do something at the same time. Just do what is urgent and the other request later on”. She was right.
Being cheeky, I wanted to find out if Alan listened to George more or the other way around. My conclusion was that George listened to Alan more often. Gradually I learned how to prioritise.
Alan moved out early and did not come home always. Whenever he was back, he spent time with us. Since I hanged around most of the time with George out frequently playing team sports, I gradually became Alan’s personal service boy, beginning by shining shoes. Each time, I got paid HK twenty cents. When he was teaching in country primary schools, he came home for breakfast in the morning. By then, George had left for school. I ended up buying sandwiches for Alan. He liked the generous portion of egg and corned beef fillings from Mr Peace’s roadside coffee/ tea stand next to the cinema house in the Luen Wo Market. Knowing Alan being on a busy schedule, Mr Peace always did my order first.
In other times, I acted as the door boy for Alan in his absence when he got friends looking for him. My duty was ask those big brothers to leave their names and telephone numbers behind so that Alan could get back to them later on. When I did not know how to write their names, I just begged them to do it themselves. Fortunately his friends were kind and considerate.
Dad and Mum always encouraged me to help out. With or without encouragement, I felt proud to oblige because people who knew Alan had high regards for him in view of his gentleness, humility and intelligence.
《The Promised Land 》
“Salvation is by grace, it is the gift of God “
(Ephesians 2:8)
God may not accomplish everything we want, but He will certainly fulfill His promise.
Alan, your shadow and smiles are still alive in my memory. 10/1/2020 is the day of your burial and rest. For this reason, we gather here to see you off, because you will walk the way of going and never returning. Please don’t worry about us., we know you go to the land of promise! We are here to bid you farewell and wish you peace and tranquility forever.
After that, although we may not be able talk to each other face to face, but we can rely on the Holy Spirit to lead us to replace conversation with unspeakable sights and pray silently!
From Peter Leung, Part 3
Alan was focused on getting a good university education. On graduation, he could continue the matriculation course at Queen’s College. As he did not like to burden further his parents’ overstretched financial position, he chose to work as a junior teacher in several country primary schools. The principals of those schools appreciated his hard work and intelligence so much that they encouraged and recommended him strongly to enroll in the one-year qualified teacher training course conducted by the Hong Kong Government. Admission to the course was very competitive because many high school graduates wanted to have in view of the attractive prospect and remuneration accorded to the graduates.
Before long, he successfully completed the course and was assigned a pensionable teaching post at a well-established primary school in Kowloon. As a start, he had more than doubled his monthly income. Yet he had not forgotten his goal of getting university educated. So he moved to Kowloon so that he would study at night for his matriculation qualifications. He decided to pursue the British “GCE” qualifications. He again succeeded in obtaining those qualifications in two years as would a full-time student need to spend.
By the way had he not met some young Americans during those two years, Alan might have gone on the British stream of education and become alike those British educated elites with a tendency to being cliquish and self-centered. Instead, he had chosen to follow his dreams in America. Such an action had opened up a new world of opportunities for him and his younger siblings.
From Peter Leung, Part 2
Alan went to a very good if not the best high school in Hong Kong. Before we moved to the New Territories in 1954, he was able to walk to school in twenty minutes. Following the shift, the trip to school became a daily exercise of running from one public transport to another in order to get to school on time. He took a train from Fanling to Tsim Sha Tsui where he got on the Star Ferry to cross the Victoria Harbour to Central and then to embark a tram to pass through Central, Admiralty, Wan Tsai and disembarked at the far end of Causeway Bay. The total journey took about ninety minutes. Presumably, he would sometimes have to run like hell to get through the closing school gate to be in class on time.
In order to have a silent environment for his studies, Alan had a room above a carpenter shop at the far end of the Luen Wo Market or about ten minutes away from home. So every morning, he had to get up at six and walked briskly home to drop off his dirty clothes for Mum to wash and iron, to have breakfast, and to get his daily allowance from Mum before another quick walk to the station to catch the 6:30 AM train to Kowloon. Wanting to cut down on the time needed to walk home and to the train station so that he could spend more time at home in
the morning, Alan told Dad that a bicycle would be the answer. Dad saw his point and Mum agreed with Alan because she would like him to have more time for breakfast.
A few weeks later, Dad went to Hong Kong to meet up with Alan to get the bicycle that the latter wanted. It was a popular brand made in Britain by the name of “The Arrow” which was a sleek-looking sturdy bicycle sprayed with smooth glossy black paint. In the evening that Alan came home with the new bicycle, he felt very proud and grateful for all his parents had done for him. Later on, Alan said the price of his bicycle was about half of Dad’s monthly salary and he was amazed at how his parents managed to save so much so fast.
From then, Alan came home leisurely on his bicycle and did not leave for the station until five minutes before the departure of his train. He appeared to enjoy that adrenaline rush.
The hectic schedule of a three- hour round trip every school day had not affected his grades at all. On the contrary, he passed the graduation examinations of the Hong Kong English high schools with flying colours in 1956. Alan’s academic performance was a hard act to follow.
I am very sorry to read about Alan’s passing. I have wonderful memories of energizing my chi with David, Alan and Joyce at Master Bonds class. Many happy breakfasts were
Enjoyed at Zippys or dim sum. Our first Air and Sea to China, the Peony Tour was extra fun with Alan and Joyce.
Alan spoke often about his children and grandchildren, he was very proud of all of them and loved them very much. Love and comfort each other at this difficult time.
Much love and aloha to Joyce and all the Leung Family.
Sincerely, Eunice Tom
It is with sadness I read this announcement this morning. I am honored to have been his dentist for 20+ years. Mr. Leung was always pleasant, punctual and we talked about many topics including his work. Mahalo for being part of my life. Rest in love.
