Speaking through a Vietnamese translator, a grieving widower shared his pain and grief after losing his wife of 27 years. Nga Nguyen spoke Monday near their home in Calgary. “I am so sad and I am speechless.
I know I will not see my wife anymore,” Nguyen said. “She was a wonderful wife. She spoiled me, she never argued with me and whatever I wanted to buy, she would buy it at all costs,” Nguyen said.
Hiep Bui, 67, died on April 19, 2020. She was COVID-19 positive. She worked her final shift at the Cargill meat plant in High River on April 16.
Her husband and coworkers said she loved working there and rarely called in sick over the span of her employment. Coworker Leslie Robb said some of them affectionately called her the “candy mama.” She