Memorial Trees
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Tao Li
March 14, 2025
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Katherine Loizos and Hamilton Gonzlez
March 13, 2025
Memorial trees planted for:
Chunjun Ma
<p>Chunjun Ma, born in Luzhai, Guangxi, China, age 90, passed away on March 1, 2025, in Cincinnati, Ohio.</p><p>Even though having a difficult upbringing and through terrible and difficult times, he strived to study diligently and change his fate through education. He graduated from the Department of Chemistry in Wuhan University, Master of Science in Element Organic Chemistry under the guide of famous Dr. Zeng Zhao Lun, the founder of Chemistry in China. After graduation, he joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry in Shanghai East China College of Chemical Engineering, now known as East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST). In 1972, he was transferred to the College’s Si Chuan Campus. In 1979, he and his family returned to the main Campus in Shanghai and joined the Environmental Research Center. He oversaw rocket fuel wastewater treatment research and design finalization, ozonation of organic amines in aqueous phase, the toxicity of ozone treatment of mixed amine wastewater, etc. He participated in the subtopic “The Fixed Oxygen Removal in Coking Wastewater” under “Huangpu River Pollution Comprehensive Management and Research”, which was awarded the first place in 1986 State Environmental Protection Administration Science and Technology Progress Award. He owned several patents. He had multiple publications and was one of the authors that translated and published the Chinese version of the classic textbook Concise Inorganic Chemistry by J. D. Lee, which helped generations of chemists in China.</p><p>He was very athletic when young and served as volleyball team captain at Wuhan University. He taught his children how to play volleyball, ping pong and swimming. His athletic ability passed down to the grandchildren.</p><p>His family remembers him not only as a hard-working man with great accomplishments but also one characterized by a deeply caring nature and quiet yet prevailing wisdom, and as a loving husband, father, grandfather, uncle, great uncle, and friends and colleagues. While his family is heartbroken by his passing, it fills them with great comfort that what proved to be his final days were peaceful ones. </p><p>Chunjun is survived by his loving wife, Shengyu Zhu, daughter Xin Ma (Aaron Colson), grandchildren Yvonne and Dion Colson, and son Chuan Ma (Bo Gao). A life well lived and positively impacted so many. We will each carry and cherish his memory with us. Online condolences at www.strawserfuneralhome.com</p><p><br> </p>February 23, 1935 - March 1, 202502/23/193503/01/2025
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