Tsun-Yu (Chinnie) Kwan

September 12, 1933 – September 6, 2015

Tsun-Yu (Chinnie) Kwan passed away peacefully at her home in Kensington, California, on September 6th, six days short of her 82nd birthday.

Chinnie was born on September 12, 1933, in Tientsin (Tianjin), China. She was the sixth and youngest child of Sung-Sing Kwan, and Vong-Ling Lee.

Chinnie came to the United States in 1948. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts with a degree in biochemistry. Chinnie worked as a research biochemist in Boston, and in the Bay Area at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She was a 45+ year resident of Berkeley and Kensington.

Tsun-Yu (Chinnie) Kwan is preceded in death by her mother and father, her brothers Tsun-Ying (Lawrence) Kwan and Tsun-Chieh (Jack) Kwan, and her sister Tsun-Hsien (Doris) Kwan Bhagat. She is survived by her sister Dr. Tsun-Yee (Sunny) Lawrence and her brother Tsun-Wu (William) Kwan, her sisters-in-law Agnes Y. Kwan and Margaret Y. Kwan, and brothers-in-law Shantilal Bhagat and Dr. William Lawrence. She will be greatly missed by her nieces and nephews, her cousins, the Sung family, her many friends and her beloved dog Tinker. She left this earth quietly, with dignity and grace, and full of gratitude for all of life’s blessings.

In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory to Untours Foundation http:// untoursfoundation.org/ , or to a charity of your choice would be appreciated..