ed peacefully on Feb. 25 at age 95.
Kong Son was born in 1930 in the former Portuguese African province of Mozambique, in the capital Lourenço Marques. He was admitted to Peking University as a teenager to study veterinary medicine. As a Portuguese citizen, he was allowed to leave China after the communist revolution, to work in Macau, where he established his first veterinary clinic.
In 1953, he married Ling Chun Fu (Teresa) in neighboring Hong Kong. The following year, they moved back to Mozambique where they raised their family. He joined the research faculty of the Instituto de Investigação Veterinária, specializing in tropical pathology for animal diseases.
After retirement, Kong Son and Teresa moved to Wayland, where he revived his lifelong hobbies, perfecting Chinese brush painting and calligraphy, breeding tropical fish, and growing orchids. A lifelong scholar, he enjoyed opportunities to improve his mastery of the English, Portuguese, Mandarin, and Cantonese languages and literature.
He is survived by Teresa, his wife of 73 years, and many otjer family members. A celebration of life was held on Sunday, March 8 followed by private interment at Newton Cemetery.
Kong Son Chiu
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