Landon Senhao Zou

Remembering Landon Senhao Zou 邹森豪 With deepest sorrow, we announce that Landon Senhao Zou, our most beloved son, brother, family member and friend, passed suddenly on Monday, September 20, 2021 at his cherished home in Redlands, California. Landon joined our Lord, his heavenly father, at age 29. He was born on January 27, 1992 in Taiyuan, China. Landon was born to Shuping Suzanne Wang and Ji Zou. Landon’s mother came to California State University, San Bernardino to obtain her Master’s degree in Education in 1996 with the help of her cousin Bing Lisa Guo, in New Jersey, and her two former college professors and generous sponsors, Professors Margaret Faust and William Landon Faust from Scripps College and Pomona College, and with the help of her graduate program coordinator, Professor Lynne Diaz-Rico. Professors Margaret and Don Faust loved Landon and showered him with love, affection, and care, visits, birthday gifts, and deeply understood the obstacles Landon had to go through after he and his dad joined his mother in the US in May 1997 when Landon was 5 years old. 2 The family first lived in San Bernardino with a wonderful host family, Mr. John Serrano and Mrs. Louise Serrano, who both loved Landon and treated him like their own grandson. He remembered their kindness and visited them whenever he could. Landon attended kindergarten at Arrowhead Elementary School in San Bernardino. He was chosen as a Bing Wong College Scholarship recipient in kindergarten for being intelligent and full of potential, and had his college tuition fund ready before going to college in 2010. In 1999, the family moved to Loma Linda. During this time Landon attended Smiley Elementary School and Mariposa Elementary School, Cope Middle School and graduated from Redlands High School. Landon was made chief editor for the year book for Mariposa Elementary School in 5th grade. Later on, during his time at Cope Middle School and Redlands High school, Landon went on to receive many Student of the Month awards. He was on the Destination Imagination team representing Cope Middle School and they won the first place in reginal completion and went to Sacramento to compete in the state competition representing San Bernardino County schools. He excelled at snowboarding, swimming, fencing, water skiing, and played the violin, clarinet, and the piano. When he was in high school, he served as the treasurer of the International Culture Club. He also volunteered for the Loma Linda Sanyu Chinese Language School teaching kids Chinese, chess and martial arts. He also directed, chose the music and choreographed a martial arts performance for the graduation ceremony for Sanyu Chinese School at Loma Linda Chinese SDA Church. Landon was very generous and enjoyed giving. He won a volunteer award by San Bernardino County for volunteering at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda Library, and in the community for over 1000 hours during high school. He also completed over 72 hours of EMT boot camp training and received a certificate of training. Later on, he was able to use his EMT skill in college to save lives. 3 In 2010, Landon graduated from Redlands High School and was accepted by UC Riverside, UC Merced, UC Santa Cruz, Azusa Pacific University, and many other colleges. He attended University of California, Santa Cruz and completed 214 college units. Landon was an avid reader and loved learning. He obtained a CSO Campus Security Officer Certificate from Inland Career Education Center in San Bernardino and completed Phlebotomy training classes at Wagner Institute in Redlands. He was certified in CPR and first aid training in 2020. Landon loved music and created beautiful electronic dance music (EDM) using his laptop. He was a thinker, a philosopher and a poet. He wrote a book including his hand drawn illustrations at Mariposa Elementary School, and also published a poem on an online literary magazine while he was at high school. He was writing poems through his life and even in the last few months before his passing. He used his poems to convey his thoughts and feelings that were hard to channel out due to his severe anxiety and other mental health disorders. And Landon was brave and courageous. He kept fighting his mental health disorders with all his might. He had sought counseling from psychologists, college counselors, therapists, psychiatrists, and church groups. He had obtained medical treatment and help from medical professionals at Loma Linda Behavioral Medical Center, Operation Dawn, and other treatment programs. Landon was very grateful for the treatment he had received and valued the support he was given. Landon was a true believer of Jesus Christ. Since his childhood, he went about telling people stories of Jesus Christ when he was 3 or 4 years old in China, started attending bible school every Sunday after he came to California at 5 years old, read and studied the Bible, prayed and trusted the Lord Almighty. His faith in our Lord never wavered even in the toughest storms. Landon never lost hope. The day before his sudden and unexpected death, he helped his mother water flowers, trees, and plants in the garden. He cleaned their two pet 4 ducks’ kiddy pools very thoroughly, changed water for them, and fed them generously. He showed his mom a very big and beautiful dragonfly on the tree while working in the backyard, and his mom took a live picture of it with a background audio of him asking his mom to blow up the photo for a better picture of the dragonfly. He held his sister’s cat, Cloudy, in his arms, on his desk, and on his bed. He fed Cloudy, gently stroked him, played with him, and talked to him. He waved to boaters and kayakers from his uncle’s dock in Newport Beach. He also replied to an email from an Amazon job recruiter who had invited him to apply for their management positions. He had planned out activities for a new day for a new life on earth. However, the Lord had a better plan for him. So He sent his angels to pick Landon up to join Him for Landon’s eternal life in heaven with no worries, no anxiety and no pains. We know Landon is now with his loving grandparents and is loved here on earth as well as in heaven. He is also in heaven with his grandparents in America, Professors Margaret and William Landon Faust, whom Landon was named after, Mr. and Mrs. Serrano, and Professor Lynne Diaz-Rico. All of them love him as much as we do. Landon will be missed everyday by his mother, Shuping Suzanne Wang, father, Ji Zou, younger brother, William Wang, younger sister, Katie Zou, his many loving great uncles, great aunts, uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews, and nieces in China. He loved them so much because they had given him wonderful childhood memories and he was grateful and had vowed to pay them back with gratitude and help in the future. Landon is also missed by his Aunt Bing Lisa Guo, Uncle Lun Ye, Cousins Daniel and Peter of Bridgewater, NJ. He loved visiting them one summer as a kid and enjoyed the fun trips to New York, the Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Center, the Central Park, the United Nations, and splashing water in the Atlantic Ocean and a waterpark. Landon also enjoyed happy family gatherings at his Uncle Dong Guo and Aunt Yanqing Zeng’s vacation home in Newport Beach, California and the beautiful ocean views from their house, dock and the boat. 5 Landon was a true friend to his friends – ready and willing at a moment’s notice, to pay for a friend’s Uber rides, an expensive birthday present, or an airplane ticket for the sake of friendship. Landon was a hard working young man. He worked on college campus and learned how to make tacos from the college dining hall. He worked in Amazon and created much more efficient ways to make the production line five to six times faster. His creativity and responsible job performance earned him the trust of the manager and invited him to apply for their district manager position after his college graduation. His most recent job was his dream job. He loved working at Chino Hills Public Library, helping library patrons with his bilingual skill, computer skills, detail oriented research and academic skills, with patience and kindness, as well as his gentle demeanor. Landon will be missed by many of his friends, classmates, colleagues, and others whose lives have been touched by his blessed 29 years of life. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to be made to NAMI, Operation Dawn, and Loma Linda Behavioral Medical Center, or charities and churches of your choice, in honor of Landon Senhao Zou. A viewing and service is planned for Landon Senhao Zou on October 8, 2021 from 4 to 6 pm at Redlands United Church of Christ, 168 Bellevue Ave, Redlands, CA 92373. Cremation to follow. To send condolences please visit this website: https://www.sunsetfuneralcare.com/obituaries/Landon-Senhao-Zou/#!/TributeWall Landon will be resting in peace with our dear Lord at Hillside Memorial Park in Redlands, California. We LOVE and MISS you so much, 豪豪，our beloved son and dear brother! And we will always cherish your memories in our hearts! 6 He’s In The Sun, The Wind, The Rain anonymous He’s in the sun, the wind, the rain, he’s in the air you breathe with every breath you take. He sings a song of hope and cheer, there’s no more pain, no more fear. You’ll see him in the clouds above, hear him whisper words of love, you’ll be together before long, until then, listen for his song. Build Me a Son, O Lord Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be; a son who will know Thee and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge. Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail. Build me a son whose heart will be clean, whose goal will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will learn to laugh, yet 7 never forget how to weep; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past. And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength. Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, “I have not lived in vain.” (General Douglas MacArthur) Quoted by the mother of Landon Senhao Zou 邹森豪

Landon Senhao Zou

January 27, 1992 - September 20, 2021