Patrick P.C. Hu

Patrick P. C. Hu, Hu Pei Chwen, sailed into the arms of Jesus on Thursday, January 30, 2014. Born in Anhui, China, on March 25 in the Year of the Dragon, 1916. Official records list 1918 Both parents died when he was young. Elder brother left home to find work and Pei Chwen and his younger brother became beggars. They begged at YiJiShan mission hospital. Pei Chwen asked for a job, and was hired to do office cleaning, then became house-boy for a household of missionary doctors and nurses. He asked to go to school, which the missionaries helped him and his brother to do. His Christian faith, gift for listening to His Lord's call to action, thirst for education and desire to make life better for everyone, led him to an adventurous life. He became a teacher, principal of a village school, village medic, and earned his B.A.in sociology from University of Nanking. During WW II he served with the OSS as interpreter between Chinese and Americans, and became known as Patrick. His war experience led to further education in the USA. During his graduate studies at University of Denver, the communists took over China, and Patrick became a refugee. He worked as campus coolie, gardener, and house-boy. While working at University of Colorado Medical Center, doing medical photography he met and later married nursing student Edna Fenske and had 3 children. Patrick finished his MA in Audio-Visual Education and his MSW. Both Patrick and Edna worked at CU Medical Center until 1965, when they went to Taipei, Taiwan to set up the Lutheran Social Service Center, under Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod World Missions, Lutheran World Relief, and Wheat Ridge Foundation. Returning to Denver in 1971 Patrick directed social services agencies for the Salvation Army in Denver and Detroit and for Lutheran and county agencies in Iowa, before going to Macau to set up social services and help run the Lutheran school for the deaf. After 5 years there, he retired to Fort Collins in 1988. He earned his Karate West Black Belt at age 80. In 2001, Edna was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and Patrick faithfully cared for her until her death in 2009. A few months later, he became ill and needed nursing home care, himself. The family would like to thank the staff at Columbine West for the many years of loving care for both Patrick and Edna. Preceded in death by his parents, Hu Chang-Yi and Hu Chen-Shih; brothers, Hu Pei You and Hu Pei Hwa aka Jimmy C.P. Hu; wife Edna; granddaughter Pamela Jade Yee. He is survived by his children, Lou Anne Yee Kim, Mark Ecaterina, and Lawrence Lynn; grandchildren Elizabeth Erickson Darron, Adam Yee, Temujin Hu, Isaac Henry Christy, Faith Smith Wes, Isabella & Gabriella Hu, Christopher, Christina & Anthony Hu; great-grandchildren Lael Erickson, Chloe, Luke, Audrey, & Seth Henry, Silas & Adara Hood; numerous, nieces, nephews, sisters- and brothers-in-law. Viewing 2:00 – 6:00 p.m. on Sunday at Bohlender Funeral Chapel. Services, Monday, 10:30 a.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church, 305 E Elizabeth St. Burial Grandview Cemetery. Memorials to Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod International Missions or St. John's Lutheran Church Foundation in Fort Collins in care of Bohlender Funeral Chapel, 121 W. Olive, Fort Collins, Colorado 80524.

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Patrick P.C. Hu

March 25, 1918 - January 30, 2014