Locke’s father, Locke Rongshuo, passed away and participated in the Battle of Normandy.

James Locke, the Chinese American Secretary of the U.S. Federal Department of Commerce and the father of former Washington Governor Locke, passed away last week. Locke was born in 1917 at the age of 93.

Luo Rongshuo was born in Taishan City, Guangdong Province, China in 1917. When he was thirteen, he returned to Washington State with his parents and settled in Seattle. During World War II, he served in the army, attached to General Patton's Army's 10th Regiment, and participated in the Normandy Invasion in 1944. To this day, the Luo family is still proud that Luo Rongshuo served under the famous general Patton. After World War II, Luo Rongshuo returned to Hong Kong to marry his wife, and returned to Seattle with his family to live in. After he was discharged from the army, he opened a grocery store and ran a small Chinese restaurant in Seattle. He lived in a public housing complex provided by the federal government for low-income people. ** public housing, and Locke was born on January 21, 1950. He was the second among five brothers and sisters in his family. Just like other Taishan immigrant families with low early education, Luo's family language is Taishan dialect. Luo Jiahui only started to learn to speak English when he was five years old. He studied hard and studied hard since he was a child. From middle school to university, he received government grants and scholarship.

Luo Rongshuo lived in Jian'an Nursing Home in his later years. Locke returned to Seattle on January 7, and the Locke family is also preparing for the old man's memorial service and funeral.