Nancy Harue Chong's Obituary
Nancy Harue Chong was a kind and gentle woman and a loving and caring mother and grandmother. She passed away peacefully on 14 January 2025 at her home in Manoa Senior Care.
Nancy was born 29 March 1929 at her home in Omaopio, Maui to Yoshio and Natsu Nakamura. She the third of 5 children, older brothers Haruki and Yoshiharu, sister Millie, and brother Masaki. She was a proud farm girl growing up in Kula. She attended Kealahou Elementary and Maui High. She worked on the family farm on weekends and later got a job with Libby's Cannery in Haiku and Dole Cannery in Honolulu. While in Honolulu, she attended Honolulu Business College. She met George, her husband of 60 years at a YWCA dance on evening. She was very shy, but George eventually won her over. Nancy had a few jobs before she became a clerk with the Honolulu City & County Finance Department.
Nancy loved bowling but not as much as Mah Jong. She would spend endless weekends with her foursomes and continued her love of the game up to her final days when she would still routinely win. After retiring in 1991, Nancy started traveling around the world and boy, did she travel. She went on 49 trips to the mainland and internationally between 1991 and 2019 and visited 52 countries. She never took a camera, so we were grateful whenever friends shared pictures of her. Nancy enjoyed the art of Hawaiian quilting and tending to her small vegetable garden and her jabong, avocado, and calamansi trees. She loved her Coke, McRib sandwich, and "skinny" noodles.
She was always soft spoken and never wanted to bother others. She was a wonderful mother......except one day she yelled at me when I was 10. I will smile when I think of her reply "I'm fine" every time I'd ask how she was, even under the most difficult circumstances. I'll remember her gorgeous smile and waving goodbye every time we left her.
Nancy leaves behind an Ohana that will fondly miss her, son Byron and wife Karen, grandson Ryan and wife Carol, granddaughter Allyse and husband Steven. She is survived by brother Masaki, sister in laws Emiko and Janet, and niece Lisa who cared for mom as if she was her own.
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