Enjoyed calligraphy, reading and growing flowers
MELROSE — Former resident of Melrose, Ju-Fen (官举芬) passed away on April 23, 2025 in Chengdu, China. She was born in Zigong, China on March 30, 1931.
Ju-Fen studied geology at Northwest University in Xi’an where she met her future husband Wen-Jian Han (韩文健). After graduation, they worked for the Sichuan Petroleum Institute and were married in 1958. They surveyed remote mountainous areas of China from 1956 to 1973.
During retirement, she and her husband visited friends and family. They visited their daughters’ families in New England and helped watch their grandchildren, and then returned to China where they lived with their son Jie and visited relatives and friends.
Ju-Fen enjoyed calligraphy, reading books and growing plants and admiring their flowers. While in the U.S.A., she and her husband enjoyed visiting parks and playgrounds with their grandchildren including the Melrose Common, Pine Banks Park, and Breakheart Reservation and family trips to Acadia National Park, Niagara Falls, and Newfound Lake in Bristol, New Hampshire to visit their daughter Yi’s family.
Ju-Fen was predeceased by her husband Wen-Jian, her father Xuan-Zhen Guan (官选銓) and her mother Xia (夏), and her brother and sisters. She is survived by her son Jie Han in Chengdu; daughter Ying and son-in-law Anthony Brach in Massachusetts, grandsons Jonathan (and his wife Alex) and great-granddaughter Kennedy in New York, Richard (and his wife Paola) in California, and Joseph (and his wife Brynn) in Vermont; and daughter Yi Han (and son-in-law Chih-Hua Pao), and grandchildren Jay and Jasia in Georgia, and nephews and nieces in China and the U.K.
Visitation and interment in China will be private.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association [https://alz.org/], Doctors Without Borders [https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/], Partners in Health [https://www.pih.org/], or your favorite charity.