DECATUR COUNTY, GA - OBITS   Yu Fu Shen

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Yu Fu Shen
October 10, 1916 - August 07, 2006



Services for Yu Fu Shen will be held, August 10, 2006, at 10:00 AM at the following locations:
Resthaven Gardens of Memory
Candler Road
Decatur, GA 30032

Yu Fu Shen, 90, passed away on August 7th 2006 after a
protracted illness. He was born in Yinzhou, Anhui Province,
China and grew up in Nanjing, China. His father having died when
he was twelve, Mr. Shen found himself responsible for his infant
brother and mother, and raised himself up, becoming a graduate
of Fudan University with a degree in Journalism. He then worked
as the Press Secretary and Personal Assistant for Shen Yi, the
Mayor of Nanjing, then the capital of China. After the Communist
takeover in 1949, he was sent to Dalien, China to supervise the
establishment of government offices there. Subsequently, he was
appointed to teach the children of goverment leaders in the
Southeastern Region of China. In 1958, he was labeled a counter-
revolutionary, and sent to a concentration camp in the desert of
Qinghai, China for 4 years, where he endured psychological and
physical torture. Afterwards, he returned home to Shanghai
without papers and under house arrest for the next 22 years,
when he was made to sweep the city streets while being abused
and to suffer public beatings at the hands of the Red Guards
during the Cultural Revolution. In 1980, after Deng Xiao Peng
returned to power, Mr. Shen was deemed "rehabilitated" without
recompense or apology. He then returned to teaching at Shanghai
Evening University until 1987, when he retired due to illness.
When the Bamboo Curtain lifted, Mr. Shen encouraged his
daughters to escape, and most fortunately, he arrived on a
visiting visa to the U.S. in 1989, when the Tienamin Massacre
occurred, and the President allowed Mr. Shen and other Chinese
immigrants to remain in the U.S. as refugees. Graveside services
will be held at 10 AM Thursday at Resthaven Gardens of Memory.
Mr. Shen is survived by his wife of 59 years, Pu Yu Xiu, and his
three daughters, Shen Hui, Shen Yang and Shen Qi, their
husbands, respectively, Chen Huai Min, Joseph Valles and Dale
Wheeler, and a brother, Shen Yi Quen, and sister-in-law, Hui
Fang Ran, in Nanjing. Mr. Shen was a person who loved life and
always had an open heart for people. He will be sorely missed by
all who knew him. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 PM
Wednesday at A. S. Turner and Sons.