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So here’s the famous Sue brothers, now both landed in Hawaii. We all enjoyed a really nice time at the Waiole Tea House in Manoa Valley and look forward to more fun times together in the islands soon… aloha!

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Bok Miu, 1981

In 1981, Darlene (Tom) Sue, visited Bok Miu, the ancestral village of the Tom family, in Zhongshan Province, China.  She met her first cousin Eu Quon and his family.  Steve, Alan and Linda Sue would later use these pictures to find the Tom family cousins on a visit to China some ten years later.

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Installed by an older do-it-your-selfer. CONSIDERATIONS: It’s too much to manually water the lawns of a 15,000 sf property, and lawns without water turn brown, look or are dead, in Kaimuki, Hawaii. So it’s time to build an irrigation system. PVC pipes and fittings have to be buried to protect them from UV. Galvanized steel pipe […]

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In 1962 we decided the E15th St. house wasn’t big enough for our budding family, so we found a vacant lot in the Montclair District of the Oakland Hills. The lot cost $4000 which we bought with Darlene’s personal savings. At the time my landscape architectural firm, Ribera & Sue was in partnership with Mal Stern, an […]

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In 1957, our mom, Alice Sue bought a vacant lot on E15 St. in Oakland, 2 blocks away from daughter Helen & son-in-law Henry Owyoungs’ home. Brother Ed Sue designed & I built Mom’s small 1200 SF, 3 bedroom house. Ed’s architectural training didn’t help much toward practical construction, so we acquired construction know-how from […]

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