Juliana Young Koo, Chinese Immigrant Who Published Her Life Story at 104, Dies at 111
Don’t dwell on the past; think about how to make the future better." It was advice Mrs. Koo followed again and again — when her first husband was executed by the Japanese in the Philippines; when she became seasick on the ship
that brought her to the United States after the war (she said it had almost capsized in a violent storm); and when thieves stole her jewelry after she had moved to New York.
Mrs. Koo died on May 24 at her home in Manhattan after a mah-jongg party — the tile game became her passion in later years —
and a birthday celebration for her daughter Shirley Young.
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By 2012, when she celebrated her 107th birthday, guests marveled
that she had been born the year that Theodore Roosevelt began his second term as president, the year the Russo-Japanese War ended, the year Einstein worked out the theory of special relativity.
Mrs. Koo wrote in her autobiography that his "main mission" there was to "raise money from the Chinese community for the war against the Japanese."
She pitched in, as honorary chairwoman of the Overseas Chinese Women’s Association, organizing drives to collect jewelry that could be sold.
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