給葛兰夫人凱蒂的信

昨午接到您的電話語帶悲悽告訴我葛蘭走了，他離開我們永別了，我心中一陣劇痛而無言以對，對您而言超過六十多年的結縭夫妻是多麼令人悲傷和感動的愛情故事。

葛蘭經常提起你們是生長在北加州小鎮時之青梅竹馬是小學同學,一直到走向人生之道路上共度美好幸福之時光。

去年葛蘭和我到首都華盛頓參观了幾內亞駐美國大使館之外交活動，結束當天上午本應回來參加當晚你們五十年金婚之喜，但是早班機因天氣惡劣而取消，而在休斯敦你們的愛子羅伯為你們籌辦之慶祝晚宴，已經有百餘位親朋好友要出席。當時我們也束手無策，還是羅拔機靈立即找到西南航空，下午班機晚上六點趕到宴會地點，而當時葛蘭並不知情這場盛大之金婚宴是羅拔精心策劃的，當他進入会場時大家鼓掌歡迎,葛兰和妳擁抱而露出𤌴爛無比之微笑。

幾十年來，妳是他最信賴和能幹的生活及事業之伙伴，他經常提起妳每天為他準備之早晚餐及無微不至之照顧，在他最後之歲月你更是形影不離廝守床前。

葛蘭在他七十六年之歲月中，生活充滿了活力，他對社區服務做出巨大貢獻，對許多人都是有求必應，他的人格魅力得到各界之肯定。

今晨我不斷翻閱他在國際貿易中心及各種活動之照片，看先他的微笑面孔，我眼眶又泛淚了。

凱蒂，你一定要堅強面對失去葛蘭之悲哀, 我們也要共同慶幸他充滿幸福快樂的一生，他如今在另外一個世界，我們祝福他一路走好。

你們的好友弟兄

李蔚華 朱勤勤 敬上

2024年7月2日

Letter to Katie Gondo

Dear Katie: 

Yesterday afternoon, I received your phone call, and then you told me that Glen had left us. There was a burning pain in my heart and  I was speechless.

Glen often mentioned that you and he     

were childhood sweethearts when both of you grew up in a small town in northern California, and that you were classmates in elementary school, and that you have spent a good and happy time together on the road of life. What a touching love story for both of you for more than sixty years.

Last year, Glen and I went to Washington D.C. to participate in the diplomatic activities of the Guinean Embassy. After that morning, we had planned to fly back home to attend your Fifty Years Golden Wedding Anniversary party, but unfortunately, the flight was canceled due to bad weather, and there were more than one hundred guests that had been invited to attend the special party. We were also quite helpless at that time and your son Robert finally found an afternoon flight with Southwest Airlines and we rushed back to Houston. At that time,  Glen didn’t know that Robert was preparing the party for him. When he entered the room, everybody applauded and greeted him. Glen hugged you and we all had very big smiles.

For decades, you have been his most trusted and capable life and career partner. He often told me how you had been taking care of him meticulously. In his last moment, you always stayed with him until he left.

In his seventy-six years, Glenn‘s life was so full of vitality. He made great contributions to our community and his personality and charm was recognized by all the people he knew.

This morning. I kept looking through our photos at the International Trade Center,      for which he was one of the founders, and 

I remembered all of the events and various activities we held there. Looking at his smiling face, my eyes burst into tears again.

Katie, you must be strong in sorrow of losing Glen, and we also want to celebrate his past happy life. He is now in another world and we wish him all the best.

Your good friend and brother,

Wea and Catherine Lee

July 2, 2024  Houston, Texas