Kyung Hi "Kimmie" Yu passed away peacefully at her Fallbrook home on May 10, 2019.
She was born in Pusan, Korea on February 25, 1933 and graduated from Kyung-Gi Girls High
School in Seoul in 1951. She worked with the U.S. Army during the Korean War and served
until 1956 when she came to the U.S. to resume her education at Missouri Central College in
Warrensburg, MO.
After graduating with her Bachelor's degree in 1960, she continued her education by attending
the University of Illinois - Urbana where she received a Masters degree in Library Science.
Upon graduation she moved to Philadelphia, PA where she was initially the head librarian at
Temple University Law School before eventually working at Hahnemann Medical College.
Kimmie moved to San Antonio, TX with her family, where she entered the US Civil Service and
was a library director at Lackland AFB's Wilford Hall Medical Center. She then transferred to
the US Army's Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) until she retired in 1998.
She is survived by her husband Paul, son Victor, sisters Sook Ja Mo (Oceanside) & Myung Ja
Lee (North Carolina), brother Hong Ki Kim (Seal Beach), and nieces Lydia Moon (Vista),
Young Eun Robbins (Oceanside), and Sookie Wicka (Escondido).