Clyde Harms shared a story about Kit Wong

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In Memory of

Kit Ying
Wong

1928 - 2017

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Kit Ying Wong's Aruba Connection

When Kit Ying Wong was growing up in Aruba, he was known as “Ayang”. He lived on the street across the lagoon from the Lt. Governor’s mansion some five houses away from where I lived. He attended the St. Dominicus School and was a Boy Scout with the St. Franciscus troop. Some of his classmates remember him as a bright student and a very agile scout. I remember Ayang as a good natured boy and liked by all who knew him.

Ayang was the son of the owners of the original Paris Restaurant in Oranjestad and the Chesterfield Restaurant in San Nicolas. After graduating from St. Dominicus College, Ayang went to study in the USA and eventually emigrated permanently. I also emigrated to the United States some years later. During the following years both Ayang and I would visit Aruba regularly, but our paths never crossed. In 1987, unbeknown to Ayang, I moved back to my native island, but we never got to meet each other the times he visited Aruba until four years ago when Ayang and his charming daughter Lisa came to Aruba. After seven decades the two former neighbors reconnected personally!

Enjoying a typical Dutch breakfast at the Dutch Pancake House just a stone's throw away from where we had lived as children, we reminisced, chatted and exchanged family news for over two hours. I enjoyed looking at the pictures Lisa had brought of the Wong family members that I had never met. I presented to Ayang my book “Storianan di Un Mucha di Lagoen” (Stories of a Lagoon Child) that had been published just a year before. The book contains a lot of pictures that brought many happy memories to Ayang.

I had hoped to see Ayang again, but that was not to be.

My condolences go to the bereaved, especially to Lisa who has impressed me with her love for her Dad.

Posted by Clyde Harms

Saturday September 23, 2017 at 11:46 am