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She stayed in Guangdong, China after Him Gin Quon returned to California. Their first daughter Katherine was born there in 1917.
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Yiu Hai Seto Quon
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As a young woman in China, Yiu Hai Seto married Him Gin Quon, an American resident whose father Quon Soon Doon (關崇俊) owned a restaurant in the city"s Chinatown neighborhood. She and Katherine joined Him Gin Quon in Los Angeles in 1922. Mistress Quon was the chef at the restaurant for many years, adapting Chinese dishes for both Chinese and American diners.
She remained active in the kitchen and welcoming guests at Grand Star into her nineties, until a broken hip in 1997 left her too frail to continue.
In her later years, Yiu Hai Quon was often celebrated as a community fixture. In 1984, she featured in a photo exhibit of nine prominent Chinese-American women in Los Angeles, on view at the Kennedy Library at California State University at Los Los Angeles
She was one of three women honored by the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California in the fiftieth anniversary parade in Chinatown in 1988. And in 1994, she was one of four Chinese-American women spotlighted in a public art project by photographer Carol Nye.
Yiu Hai Seto Quon was widowed in 1965.
She died in the summer of 1999, in Montebello, California. Her age at death was variously reported as 99, 101, or 102 years. The Grand Star is still in business in Chinatown, now as a bar and jazz club
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