After loss of mom, home, family of Clemson QB ‘grateful’ for community support
Grieving his mother’s passing the previous day, Sam Phommachanh left his Stratford home early in the evening of Dec. 21 to pick up his son at LaGuardia Airport.
“Obviously, Taisun wanted to be home to be with family,” Sam said. “My mother meant so much to us.”
Taisun Phommachanh, a redshirt freshman backup quarterback at Clemson, had a College Football Playoff national semifinal against Ohio State coming up on New Year’s night. Football, no matter how big the game, would take a backseat.
“His flight landed around 9:50, 10 o’clock,” Sam said.
Kane Phommachanh was born in Thailand and had been a longtime resident of Bridgeport. She worked at Schick Manufacturing for three decades, and after Kane and her husband, Kham, retired, they moved to Georgia.
“We’d go down there for Christmas every year,” Sam said. “We spent a lot of time with them over the years. My father passed (in 2019) and my mother’s health got worse over the past year.”
Kane died at Bridgeport Hospital on Dec. 20. She was 68. Services were scheduled and held Christmas Eve morning at Cyril F. Mullins Funeral Home in Trumbull. All of this was on Sam’s mind as he and