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Mai Yia Moua | Visitation:
Friday, July 11, 2008
8:00 AM until 12:00 PM
Hayden-Buettgen Funeral Home - Mosinee
900 Old Hwy 51
Mosinee, WI 54455
Visitation:
Saturday, July 12, 2008
12:00 PM until 12:00 PM
Hayden-Buettgen Funeral Home - Mosinee
900 Old Hwy 51
Mosinee, WI 54455
Service:
Monday, July 14, 2008
9:00 PM
Hayden-Buettgen Funeral Home - Mosinee
900 Old Hwy 51
Mosinee, WI 54455
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| | | The car crash Monday June 16, 2008, on Highway 29 west of Wausau, will remain forever painful due to the loss of good mothers and father of four families who recently arrived here from Thailand.
Mai Yia Moua left behind her husband Chai Xa Chang, one daughter, three sons. Her husband had been held as a prisoner of war by the Laotian Communist in Laos for more than eight years after the end of the secret war due to his service for the American CIA from 1960 to 1975. Chai Xa was released in 2003 to join his wife, sons Khamlet Chang, Wausau; Veng Chang, Wausau; and Teng Chang, Milwaukee; and daughter Yer Chang, Wausau.
Mai Yia brought all her children to the Thailand Refugee Camp Wat Thomkrabok while her husband was held as a prisoner of war. When her husband was released she tried everything to make it possible for him to join his family in Thailand a year before they came to Wausau with their hope of a better life to call Wausau their new home. She was a good mother to their children while her husband was in prison. She also served as a mother figure for many other family members.
She lived with her grandmother May Chang after the death of her parents. Her father died in 1967 while fight with communist Pathet Laos. Her grandmother cared for her own 6 children along with Mai Yia and her siblings totaling 12 children in the household. They moved from place to place, days and nights and finally escaped to Phoukoum, the Northern Park of Laos in 1969. The war separated Mai Yia from her siblings after the United States withdrew their war in Southeast Asia. She had never met her oldest brother Chong Neng Moua and younger sister Chue Moua who still live in Laos.
Her uncle, May Moua, helped sponsor the family to Wausau in 2004 to join with all of her uncles Wa Meng Moua, Cher Xiong Moua and Blong Moua all residents of the Wausau and Schofield area for more than 20 years.
Mai Yia Moua was an honest person, good mother and very kind and generous person to all those who came into her life. Services will be held July 11 to July 14, 2008 at Hayden-Buettgen Funeral Home, 900 Old Highway 51, Mosinee. Internment will be Monday July 14, 2008 at Pine Grove Cemetery, Wausau with her grandmother May Chang.
Hayden-Buettgen Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.
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