{"id":62125,"date":"2025-12-04T16:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/san-jose-viet-museum-founder-leaves-lasting-legacy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:30:16","slug":"san-jose-viet-museum-founder-leaves-lasting-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/san-jose-viet-museum-founder-leaves-lasting-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Viet Museum founder leaves lasting legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Loc Vu, the architect of San Jose\u2019s Viet Museum and Little Saigon pioneer, died Saturday at the age of 92. After months in hospice care in Cupertino, Vu spent his final moments surrounded by family and community members whose histories felt an\u00a0indelible mark left\u00a0by the former South Vietnamese military leader-turned-refugee.\u00a0 The husband, father and grandfather helped resettle more than 20,000 South Asian immigrants in Northern California after the Vietnam War. After founding San Jose\u2019s nonprofit Immigrant Resettlement and Cultural Center in 1980, Vu helped provide English classes, job training, housing assistance and immigration and citizenship support for refugees rebuilding their…\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Loc Vu, the architect of San Jose\u2019s Viet Museum and Little Saigon pioneer, died Saturday at the age of 92. After months in hospice care in Cupertino, Vu spent his final moments surrounded by family and community members whose histories felt an\u00a0indelible mark left\u00a0by the former South Vietnamese military leader-turned-refugee.\u00a0 The husband, father and grandfather …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}