给葛兰夫人凯蒂的信

昨午接到您的电话语带悲悽告诉我葛兰走了，他离开我们永别了，我心中一阵剧痛而无言以对，对您而言超过六十多年的结縭夫妻是多麼令人悲伤和感动的爱情故事。

葛兰经常提起你们是生长在北加州小镇时之青梅竹马是小学同学,一直到走向人生之道路上共度美好幸福之时光。

去年葛兰和我到首都华盛顿参观了几内亚驻美国大使馆之外交活动，结束当天上午本应回来参加当晚你们五十年金婚之喜，但是早班机因天气恶劣而取消，而在休斯敦你们的爱子罗伯為你们筹办之庆祝晚宴，已经有百餘位亲朋好友要出席。当时我们也束手无策，还是罗拔机灵立即找到西南航空，下午班机晚上六点赶到宴会地点，而当时葛兰并不知情这场盛大之金婚宴是罗拔精心策划的，当他进入会场时大家鼓掌欢迎,葛兰和妳拥抱而露出𤌴烂无比之微笑。

几十年来，妳是他最信赖和能干的生活及事业之伙伴，他经常提起妳每天為他準备之早晚餐及无微不至之照顾，在他最后之岁月你更是形影不离廝守床前。

葛兰在他七十六年之岁月中，生活充满了活力，他对社区服务做出巨大贡献，对许多人都是有求必应，他的人格魅力得到各界之肯定。

今晨我不断翻阅他在国际贸易中心及各种活动之照片，看先他的微笑面孔，我眼眶又泛泪了。

凯蒂，你一定要坚强面对失去葛兰之悲哀, 我们也要共同庆幸他充满幸福快乐的一生，他如今在另外一个世界，我们祝福他一路走好。

你们的好友弟兄

李蔚华 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