Boi Van Nguyen came to live in the United States in 1995. His daughter Trang Nguyen remembered her father as one who enjoyed helping her around the house.

"He was so strong," she said. "I just can't believe this."

Today, she said, she will begin making arrangements so her 84-year-old father's body can be taken back to Vietnam and be buried next to her mother, as he'd always wished.

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