Scholarship & Awards Banquet
May 19, 2014
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Most Honored Elders
CULTURAL KEEPERS. The Asian Reporter Foundation’s Most Honored Elders for 2014 are (left to right) Sary Khauv, Jess Osilla, and Sivheng Pao. (AR Photos/Jan Landis and Jin Huang)
Sary Khauv
Sary Khauv was born May 28, 1943 in Beung Keng
Kang, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and, along with four
siblings, was raised alone by his mother after his father
passed away. He became a high school teacher in 1966 and
married his wife Kim Nhorn Khauv in 1967. After the
Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh in 1975, he and his family
were sent to the countryside to perform forced labor. Per-
severing through a great deal of difficulty and hardship —
losing many family members, suffering deprivation and
abuse, and enduring the terror of war — Sary and his
family were able to escape into Thailand and enter into a
refugee camp where he found work as a teacher. Because
he had been a civil servant before the war, his family was
given priority status and in 1980 he immigrated to the
U.S. via a distant cousin in Oregon. His first job after ar-
riving in Oregon was as a part-time English-as-a-Second-
Language (ESL) teacher at Lincoln High School in Port-
land. He served as a community agent beginning in 1982
and became a special education teacher in 2004. Although
he retired from the school system in 2008, he continues to
teach at the Cambodian language and culture school on
the weekends and in his 10 years of teaching Saturday
school, he has only missed twice, once to visit his grandson
and once a dear friend. He lives with his daughter Ratha
and her family in Beaverton. His daughter Rany lives in
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Jess F. Osilla
Jess F. Osilla was born May 3, 1935 in Santa Barbara,
Pangasinan province, the Philippines. He attended Santa
Barbara High School, received an associate’s degree in
commercial education at the Philippine College of Com-
merce, and enlisted in the U.S. Navy after graduation. He
met his wife Grace, who recently passed away, in 1958 at a
dance in Bremerton, Washington. The couple married two
years later and had five children. Jess now has eight
grandchildren. While in the navy, Jess earned an
associate’s degree in General Studies with honors at Clark
College. He retired from the navy in 1974 after 20 years of
service with the rank of Chief Petty Officer. He was then
hired by Farmers Insurance Company as an agent where
he worked for 20 years, retiring in 1997. He is currently
active in many veterans’ organizations: American Legion,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Fleet Reserve Association, and
the National Association of Chief Petty Officers. He is also
a member of Kiwanis International, BPOE Gateway Elks
Lodge #4211, and The Odd Fellows Villa Lodge #124. Jess
volunteers with Meals on Wheels, helps out at a
downtown chapel which serves the poor and the homeless,
and is the senior usher at the Grotto during Sunday mass.
He is an avid tennis player and loves dancing and reading
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Sivheng Pao
Sivheng Pao was born May 15, 1940 in Kompong
Cham, Cambodia, one of 10 children in the family. She
married her husband, Pea Ith, a former government
official with the Department of Justice, at a young age and
they had six children — Sovy, Sochenda, Sokanchana,
Somony, Sophal, and Sovimol. Under the Khmer Rouge
regime from 1975 to 1979, she and her family endured
extreme hardship through forced labor, starvation, and
living under the threat of death. Remarkably, her
husband and children all survived the ordeal. Pea passed
away in 1993, and in 2002, Sivheng immigrated to Oregon
to live with her daughter Sochenda and two of her 14
grandchildren. In 2008, Sovy later joined Sivheng and
Sochenda in Oregon; the rest of the family still resides in
Cambodia. Sivheng is a member of the Cambodian
Buddhist temple in West Linn, Oregon and is a strong
supporter of the Cambodian-American Community of
Oregon. She often volunteers to cook for the community
and offers financial support. She also gives back to her
homeland by supporting the Golden Leaf Education
Foundation (GLEF). In addition, she has two great-
grandchildren.
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