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Qualities
Gentle and Kind
Always smiling
Compassionate
Resolute
Thoughtful
Intelligent
Modest
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Lana Theresa Buu Sao
03/05/1933 - 11/29/2007
Orlando, FL
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Passions
Family
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Obituary
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SAO, LANA BUU, maiden name Nguyen Thi Ngoc Lan, was born in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam, the daughter of the late Yen and Pham (Thi Dac) Nguyen. In her youth, she attended Notre Dame des Missions School in Thanh Hoa. In 1949, at the age of 16 she helped her family flee to Ha Noi. In 1954, the whole family again fled to Sai Gon. She received a scholarship to attend the University of Virginia in 1962. She graduated with a Master of Arts in International Relations from University of Virginia in 1965. She was the Foreign Affairs Officer for the Republic of South Viet Nam in Bonn, Germany in 1969. In 1974, she was a member of the Republic of South Viet Nam at the United Nations. From 1975 to 1977 she studied Information Sciences at Pratt Institute and obtained her Master of Science. She then worked at the Brooklyn library in New York. In 1989, she was married to Buu Sao, ex-Foreign Affairs Officer. In 1995, she and her husband moved to Orlando, Florida after she retired. There, she has contributed many activities in the Vietnamese community until she got leukemia. Lana was the vice chairman of Vietnamese Association of Central Florida from 1997 - 2000 and an active member of Amnesty International, Chapter of Orlando. On November 29th, 2007 she passed away at the age of 74 years and 9 months. Lana is survived by her loving husband Andre Buu Sao of Orlando; two daughters, Marie Claire Buu Sao of London. Anne Buu Sao of Paris, France; a son, Jean Pon Buu Sao of France; sister, Phuong Nguyen of Orlando; three brothers, Phul Nguyen., Khang Nguyen., and Ninh Nguyen, all of Orlando and seven grandchildren. The family will be receiving friends on Monday and Tuesday, December 3rd and 4th, 2007 from 6-8PM at the Dobbs Funeral Home Chapel. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Andrew Catholic Church, Orlando, FL, at lOAM on Wednesday, December 5th, with Father Andy O'Reilly officiating. Interment will be at Glen Haven Cemetery in Winter Park following the Mass. Services under the professional direction of DOBBS FUNERAL HOME, 430 N. Kirkman Road, Orlando FL 32811, 407-578-7720.
Published in the Orlando Sentinel on 12/2/2007
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Lana's Morning Prayer
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Dear Lord,
Today in early morning silence,
I pray you for peace, wisdom, and health.
I wish to see life with loving eyes, endurance, Good-naturedness and sympathy.
I wish to see all of your children as you see them, but only the goodness in them all.
Please Lord help me avoid hearing slander and saying anything malicious.
Please let my mind be filled with propitious ideas.
Please let me be amiable and happy so that when others see me they know that you are present.
Amen.
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Bioigraphy
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After fleeing from communist rule in her native Vietnam as a young woman, Lana Buu Sao spent her later years trying to help other refugees.
Buu Sao of Orlando. died Thursday from leukemia. She was 74.
Born in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam, in 1933, Buu Sao helped her family flee to Hanoi when she was 16 and then to Saigon five years later.
She received a scholarship to attend the University of Virginia and graduated with a master of arts in international relations in 1955.
After graduation, she served as the foreign-affairs officer for South Vietnam in Bonn, Germany, and as a representative for South Vietnam at the United Nations in 1974.
She went back to school from 1975 to 1977 and studied Information Sciences at the Pratt Institute in New York, where she earned a master-of-science degree. That led to a job as a librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library in New York City.
While in New York, Buu Sao helped Vietnamese refugees find jobs and housing and become citizens.
Buu Sao, whose maiden name was Nguyen Thi Ngoc Lan, married Andre Buu Sao in 1989. The couple moved to Orlando in 1995 after she retired.
But once she arrived in Central Florida, she immediately became active in the local Vietnamese community. From 1997 to 2000, Buu Sao served as the vice chairman of the Vietnamese Association of
Central Florida and was also active in the Orlando chapter of Amnesty International.
She continued helping Vietnamese refugees who came to Central Florida and worked with local governments to ensure that refugees could become citizens, Andre Buu Sao said.
"Mainly, she was a refugee just like anyone else, and she felt it was necessary to help the people to survive," her husband said. "She had some skill in the culture, and she was more able than other people to help refugees to get out of the misery. She had sympathy for people and only wanted to help them. I ad-
mired her very much."
She always hoped that one day she could return to a Vietnam that was free of communist rule. In 1997, Buu Sao helped lead a demonstration outside Orlando City Hall to denounce the continuing normalization of relations between the United States and Vietnam.
"Lots of people have the nope that with the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and Russia, that the same will happen in Vietnam," Buu Sao told the Orlando Sentinel in 1997. "We want to go back and build the country."
In addition to her husband, she is survived by daughters, Marie Claire Buu Sao of London, Amme Buu Sao of Paris; son, Jean Pon Buu Sao of France; sister, Phuong Nguyen of Orlando; brothers, Phul Nguyen, Khang Nguyen and Ninh Nguyen, all of Orlando; and seven grandchildren.
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Personal Tributes
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03/19/2008
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As Lana's husband, after her death I feel that the only thing I have to do from now is to go to the Prieure Notre Dame Said Fraternity of the Resurrection, 16140 Marcillac Lanville. France to spend the rest of my life. At August 28, 2005, Lana and I have come there for a visit as a place where Lana hope for me when she pass over. In doing that I fulfill our hope to maintain our union in God for ever.
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Andre Buusao
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03/19/2008
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Soft, unassuming, an honor to have known
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Jeannine B. Walsh
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11/27/2008
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Lana, you were a joy to know! By your example you taught others to respect and admire your homeland; you were a wonderful 'ambassador' for Vietnam.
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V. Bryant
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