Chuan Sheng

Chuan Sheng, 97, of Fort Collins, Colorado passed peacefully in her sleep at 3:10pm on Friday, August 30, 2024.

Chuan was born in Su Zhou, Jiang Su, China, and the second of eight siblings from her parents Chi Kun SHEN (father) and Yue Qin XIANG (mother). Chuan is survived by her adoring two sons Tom (Fort Collins, Colorado) and Richard (Shenghai, China) with their respective spouses Patti (Colorado) and Nola (California). Chuan's five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren live in Colorado, California and Texas.

Chuan graduated in 1944 from Su Zhou High School of Jiang Su Province with a focus on business. In 1945 she received a teaching certificate from Jiang Su Education Bureau. And was an elementary teacher from 1945-1947. From 1947 to 1948 she was a book keeper clerk for Taiwan forest district offices in Hua Lien and Hsin Chu. While there she met Ted Sheng and they married June 1, 1947. They spent a happy and exciting life together for 74 years. They traveled the globe from China to Taiwan (1948), Jamaica (1968), El Salvador (1975), Thailand (1977), Jamaica (1980), and Colorado (1985).

Chuan was a strong, courageous, loving wife, mother, and grandmother who devoted her life to her family. She was a wise, intelligent, generous woman with a kind beautiful spirit. Her hobbies and talents were many. She especially loved cooking and gardening. Her family and friends were blessed to savor the exquisite and exotic palate of her Chinese cooking which included glorious flavors and a variety of freshly prepared vegetables, seafood, meats, steamed dumplings, Singapore Noodles and sticky rice with roasted pork tucked inside bamboo leaves. She would include at least one dish she knew each guest would specifically enjoy. The more guests the more dishes. She loved to share her cooking and everyone was invited. Every weekend and/or holiday we had a family dinner. She made sure that there was plenty to eat and provided a safe peaceful environment for us to eat, discuss, love and pray. Chuan's gardening was glorious to behold. With her loving attention roses grew in abundance and their beauty blossomed beyond worldly existence, peonies magnified, and orchids thrived. She brought a plant called Queen of the Night that later became a tree and blooms enormous large white flowers at the darkest hours of the night. It shows us that in the darkest hours to look towards the light.

Chuan's foremost and final wish was that the Sheng families and friends continue to love one another and live peacefully with the harmony of enduring love that we would seek the beauty found in flowers and food to share with others. To labor with love, she endured hardships and did what's right. We will miss her more than words can say yet as long as her love is in our hearts we are surrounded by the beautiful fruits of her labor. Love is the answer. May Chuan rest in the peace of our love for one another. Amen.