Mama Quon

In about 1916, at the age of eighteen, Him Gin Quon returned to China to meet his arranged bride. Him Gin Quon married Yiu Hai Seto (later known as “MaMa Quon”) who was then seventeen. Yiu Hai Seto remained behind in China and in 1917 gave birth to their first child, a daughter, Katherine. About four years later, in 1921, when Him Gin Quon returned to China to visit his wife and daughter, my grandmother, Edith Quon Jung, was conceived. In 1922 Yiu Hai Seto and her daughter, Katherine, left Kwangtung to reunite with Him Gin Quon in Los Angeles. A few days after their arrival in Los Angeles my grandmother, Edith, was born, the first Quon to be a citizen of America.