Fang F. Gu

The world lost a beloved matriarch, Fang Gu, who passed away on 10/18/2021 in West Sacramento, California after a heroic battle with pancreatic cancer for nearly one-and-half years. At the young age of 65, she is survived by her loving husband Wen Xu, her son Joe Xu, her daughter-in-law Jane Song, and her two grandsons Camden Xu and Connor Xu.

Fang dedicated her career to higher education. After serving as a university English instructor in China for several years in the 1980s, she emigrated to the U.S., where she continued her academic career over the next quarter century. Fang worked tirelessly as a senior faculty who helped modernize the multimedia departments of numerous university libraries in keeping up with technological innovation. Though her career required her to be a visionary, Fang has always believed that her proudest achievement was having the foresight and courage to execute on her American Dream. Despite long odds and countless obstacles, Fang was the only person in her extended family to emigrate before ensuring her immediate family members joined her in the U.S. Fang has always been a patron of independent thinking, and her charter into the U.S. will ensure this value is forged with her descendants.

Fang requested a private ceremony with only her closest family members. She did not want news of her illness to be publicized because she wanted everyone to remember her in her most positive and spirited state. Fang’s energy, bravery and smile will be missed but forever remembered by her loved ones for generations to come.

我们失去了尊爱的妻子、母亲和奶奶谷芳芳。她于2021年10月18日在加利福尼亚州西萨克拉门托市与胰腺癌晚期进行了近一年半的医疗后不幸医治无效去世。年仅65岁的她身后留下了深爱的丈夫许文文、儿子许肇之、儿媳Jane Song、以及两个孙子Camden和Connor。

芳芳将她的职业生涯奉献给了中美高等教育。1980年代，她在中国担任了8年大学英语讲师后移居美国，并在接下来的30多年里继续她的学习和工作生涯。芳芳作为一名资深的图书馆员不知疲倦地工作，帮助众多大学图书馆的多媒体部门现代化并跟上技术创新的步伐。尽管她的工作使她成为一个优秀的人，但芳芳始终认为，她最自豪的成就是有远见和勇气去实现她的美国梦。芳芳是她家庭中第一个赴美留学的人，她一直是一个独立思考的人，她坚定的价值将永远激励她的子孙们在美国继续努力奋斗。

芳芳曾要求只与她最亲密的家人举行私人葬礼。她不希望她生病的消息被公开，因为她希望每个人都能记住她最积极的精神状态。芳芳的活力、勇敢和微笑将被她的亲人、朋友和同事们永远怀念并铭记在心。