Ros Mey

July 30, 1925 (age 85)

Svay Rolom, Kandal in Cambodia

He was the fifth child born to Ouch Mey (his father) and Soeum Mon (his mother), having four older sisters and a younger brother. Mey originally worked as a land surveyor for the Cambodian government until the Khmer Rouge took power in 1975, establishing Democratic Kampuchea. Mey and his surviving family managed to escape the country in 1979 and fled to the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp across the border in Thailand. Mey and his family would ultimately become one of the thousands of Cambodian refugees who would be resettled in the United States. state of Rhode Island. After a few years living as refugees, he and his family arrived in Rhode Island on February 12, 1982. In 1998, he became Chov Atika & President of the temple. He died at the temple in Providence on December 12, 2010, at the age of 85.

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Mey was born in Svay Rolom, Kandal in Cambodia on July 30, 1925.

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He was the fifth child born to Ouch Mey (his father) and Soeum Mon (his mother), having four older sisters and a younger brother. Mey originally worked as a land surveyor for the Cambodian government until the Khmer Rouge took power in 1975, establishing Democratic Kampuchea. Mey and his surviving family managed to escape the country in 1979 and fled to the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp across the border in Thailand.

Mey and his family would ultimately become one of the thousands of Cambodian refugees who would be resettled in the United States. state of Rhode Island.

After a few years living as refugees, he and his family arrived in Rhode Island on February 12, 1982. In 1998, he became Chov Atika & President of the temple.

He died at the temple in Providence on December 12, 2010, at the age of 85.

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