I just received sad news from David Lutjen that Steve Wong had
passed away on Oct. 31st. David sent me the following link from
yesterday's edition of the local newspaper printed a nice article
on Steve:

http://www.oregonlive.com/search/ind...?oregonian?lcg

--
Dan

I first started corresponding with Steve when I visited Portland in
the spring of 2002. I posted a message on this forum requesting info
about sushi places in that city and Steve responded. I visited
Portland again this year, in September, and while there I met Steve
for lunch twice. One day, after lunch, we stopped by David Lutjen's
shop.

Steve was a great guy, very cheerful and very friendly. He seemed to
be recovering from his illness (leukemia, I believe) very well under
his chemotherapy treatments and we were planning on where to go to
next when I returned to Portland. I told Steve about the great raw
oysters I had on the Olympic Peninsula, and he was planning to make
the trip up there as soon as he felt a little better.

I was teribly shocked and saddened to hear about his passing last
week.

You can see Steve's old messages by doing a search for Steve Wong in alt.food.sushi.

Dan Logcher wrote:

I just received sad news from David Lutjen that Steve Wong had
passed away on Oct. 31st. David sent me the following link from
yesterday's edition of the local newspaper printed a nice article
on Steve:

http://www.oregonlive.com/search/ind...?oregonian?lcg

Oh, dear. I was in Portland for summer of '02 and didnt' get a chance
to meet up with him. I really regret that. Thank you for posting the news.

Steve had been planning to return to work in December.

It's a very nice obituary.


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