Local woman loses father in China quake
By Amy F. Reiter
Thursday May 15, 2008
Robin Scholz
Sue Ye, left, who works in Champaign, talks Wednesday about the death of her father, Chang Ming Ye, in Monday's earthquake in China. Qingyan Tian, right, a University of Illinois graduate student, anxiously waits for word about friends who live in the affected area.
URBANA – For nearly three days, the phone has been Sue Ye's lifeline, the news reports a link to home in the worst way.
Though she works for Coldwell Banker Devonshire in Champaign, her homeland is China, in the city of Dujiang Yan, a city now in ruins after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit the Sichuan province.
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