Bich Ngoc Pham was born on October 20, 1934 in Bui Chu, Vietnam. He passed away

on September 19, 2025 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

After the Geneva Accords of 1954 divided Vietnam into a communist North and non-

communist South, Bich married his wife, Nhien Bui, and fled south to Saigon where

eight of their children were born. In order to escape the political and religious

persecution of the communist regime, even though his wife was pregnant with their

ninth child, they decided to leave everything behind in Vietnam in 1975 to secure a

better future for their children. Several days before the Fall of Saigon in April of 1975,

they departed for Guam aboard a United States Air Force C-130 Hercules. They stayed

a few weeks in the refugee center at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam prior to their

arrival at one of four refugee centers in the United States in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas

where their ninth child was born. In October of 1975, they left Fort Chaffee and settled

in Oklahoma City where their tenth child was born the following year.

In addition to his courage and perseverance, Bich Pham will always be remembered for

his devotion to his wife of 71 years and their children.