Juliana Young Koo
| Juliana Koo | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Yen Yu-yün September 26, 1905 Tianjin, China |
| Died | May 24, 2017 (aged 111) Manhattan, New York City, United States |
| Nationality | Republic of China |
| Occupation | Diplomat |
| Spouse(s) | Yang Guangsheng or Kuangson Young (m. 1929–1942; his death) Wellington Koo (m. 1959–1985; his death) |
| Children | 3 daughters with Young |
Juliana Young Koo (née Yen; September 26, 1905 – May 24, 2017) was a Chinese and American diplomat who worked in the UN Protocol Department. Her first husband, Chinese diplomat Yang Guangsheng (Kuangson Young) was executed by the Japanese during World War II. After the war, she moved to the United States and married the diplomat and politician Wellington Koo. She was a supercentenarian.
She was born to a wealthy family with business and government ties in Tianjin, China as Yen Yu-yün (Chinese: 嚴幼韻; pinyin: Yán Yòuyùn; Wade–Giles: Yen Yu-yün) on September 26, 1905 to Yan Zijun (1872–1931), whose grandfather, Yan Xinhou (1838–1907), was a Chinese visual artist. She attended Keen School when she was 14.
She was one of the first women to graduate from Fudan University. At university, a special car took her to campus and brought her back, since its number was 84, the male students nicknamed her "Miss 84".
She married (or Clarence Kuangson Young; Chinese: 楊光泩; pinyin: Yáng Guāngshēng; Wade–Giles: Yung Kuang-sheng ) on September 6, 1929. Her first husband, a Chinese diplomat, was posted to Manila at the beginning of World War II and was arrested and eventually executed by the Japanese on April 17, 1942. Juliana and her three daughters survived. After her first husband, a consul general stationed in Manila from 1938-42, was killed by the Japanese army, she took care of more than 26 widows and children of the consulate staff. After the war, she took her three daughters to the U.S. on her own. She spent 10 years working at the United Nations in New York. After she immigrated to New York, she met her future husband, Wellington Koo, a Chinese diplomat, in 1952; the couple wed in September 1959.
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