Mabelle B. Dong

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Mabelle Dong was a simple women who shared much personal value, family tradition, wisdom and her Christian beliefs to those around her.   She grew up on a farm in the outskirts of Boston with her parents, brother & sister in the early 1900’s and still maintained her own vegetable and flower garden throughout the decades.   Her marriage to Howard relocated her to Queens, NY then Long Island as her family continued to expand to eight children to later growth of 13 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren.  

Her seamstress talent started after high school which later provided her income while tending the housewife and mother life.    The new career started at age 58 after she passed the civil service test to be a town clerk till retiring at age 68.

Throughout these years, this timid and shy person has grown to a respected person among her social circle of family and friends in the American Chinese, Senior, local neighborhood and Christian communities.   Everyone remembers Mabelle with good character and kindness that she carried well.

As she aged, she gained more and more knowledge of anything and everything.  She observed and absorbed a lot of what one can do in a lifetime.  She was a true scholar and in her senior years, enjoyed taking Chinese Language, swimming and piano classes and was a faithful parishioner with Bethany Christian Church.

Her health declined but was always able to take a new path back to functionality –  her two steps back gave her a leap forward.   Her real struggle in life was experiencing the loss of her five children but the good inspirations around kept her to move forward. In the recent years, she woke up daily with dignity and knowing that there was good care around her.  She is in heaven and at peace now.  God Bless her.

 

3:30pm “Celebration of Life”  Pastor Sun from Bethany Christian Church.   

 

Donation

In Lieu of flowers, please send  a donation in “Memory of Mabelle Dong” to the below:

Bethany Christian Church| Attn:  Pastor Sun, 132-18 Avery Ave, C2, Flushing, NY  11355

 

St Joseph Health Foundation | PO Box 2900, Newark, NJ  07101-9888, www.GiveToStJosephs.org

 

Chinese Center of Long Island (CCLI) | 395 Hempstead Turnpike, West Hempstead, NY 11552

 

Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) | (c/o GLADYS YAN) PO BOX 2052 GARDEN CITY, NY 11531

 

Memorial Program for Mabelle Dong

 

3:30pm March 7th, 2021 (Sunday)

二零二一年三月七日(星期天)下午三時30分

 
Chairperson: Rev. James Sun          
主 席：孫雅章牧師                               

                                                                                                

Prelude

序       樂 

 

 

Pianist: Pr Yu

司 琴：于海川傳道 

Invocation

宣       召

 

Pastor  

牧  師

Hymn

唱 詩       

 

＊

 

Amazing Grace

奇異恩典

Congregation   

眾  立

Prayer

禱 告

 

＊

  

Pastor  

牧  師

Scripture Reading

讀  經

 

John 14:6

《约翰福音》14：6

Pastor  

牧  師

Message

信  息

 

The Change of Life

人生的改变
 

Pastor  

牧  師

Eulogy

思念生平

 

Family & Friends                           

Expression of Thanks致  謝 

 

Benediction

祝  福 

＊

Pastor  

牧  師

Last Respects

瞻仰遺容   

 

＊

 

Congregation   

眾  立

 

＊請起立Please Stand

 

Scripture Reading: John 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by Me.

讀經：            《约翰福音》14章6節

耶穌說「我就是道路、真理、生命；若不藉著我，沒有人能到父那裡去。

【奇異恩典】

奇異恩典，何等甘甜，我罪已得赦免；

前我失喪，今被尋回，瞎眼今得看見。

浩大恩典，使我敬畏，使我心得安慰；

      初信之時即蒙恩惠，真是何等寶貴。

經過許多危險網羅，飽受人間苦楚，

      此恩領我平安渡過，他日歸回天府。

將來在天安居萬年，恩光如日普照，

      好像最初蒙恩景況，讚美永不減少。

             Amazing grace

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now I see.

’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;

How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.
Through many dangers, toils, and snares,
I have already come;
’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
When we’ve been there ten thousand years,

Bright shining as the sun,

We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise

Than when we’d first begun.

 

 

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