Hanover, N.H. —
She was born in 1925 in Chulsan, Korea, one of a family of three sisters and five brothers, and immigrated to the United States with her husband, Sung Kook Chung, and their three children in 1955. They were the first Korean family to arrive in this country under the Refugee Relief Act of 1953 following the end of the Korean War and were settled directly in Hanover, N.H. The family was sponsored by the late Sidney C. Hayward, secretary of Dartmouth College, on the recommendation of a college classmate, the late Hon. Ellis O. Briggs, U.S. Ambassador to Korea, for whom her husband had worked at the American embassy in Seoul, Korea. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1962 and later helped her younger brother and his family also immigrate to Hanover. In recent years, she was a member of the local Korean Presbyterian Church.
She was predeceased by her husband in 2000, and is survived by a daughter, Kyung H. of Boston, Mass.; and four sons, Won K. and his wife, Tara Devereux, of Hartland, Vt.; Won H. of Reno, Nev.; Robert W. of Boston, Mass.; and James W. and his wife, Susan Lewis, and their two daughters, Abigail and Mia, of Swampscott, Mass.
At her request, no memorial service is planned. Contributions in her memory may be made to the Mr. and Mrs. Sung K. Chung Scholarship Fund through Dartmouth College, 6066 Development Office, Hanover, N.H. 03755.