Harold Seungsoo Yang
Oct. 20, 1941-March 6, 2014
Santa Rosa, California
Submitted by Houston Yang

Harold 'Hal' S. Yang, age 72, passed away on March 6, in Santa Rosa, California, after a nearly two-year struggle with lung cancer.

He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and moved to Boston in 1958 to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on scholarship. Hal had never been to the mainland prior to college and arrived in Boston with only two suitcases and a ukulele. Hal graduated from MIT with a degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science from University of Hawaii. He also did post-graduate work at Stanford and attended the Stanford Executive Program.

He later moved to San Jose to take a job at IBM, beginning a career in the electronics industry that spanned over 40 years, 12 Silicon Valley startups and multiple patents.

In 1973, he met his wife, Georgia, on a flight bound for Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Four months later, they were married.

A lover of all things Hawaiian, cars, UFC, movies and travel, Hal loved playing ukulele and practicing Tai Chi like it was his job. The consummate father, he enjoyed coaching his daughters softball teams and (an Eagle Scout himself) volunteering with his son's Boy Scout troop. In his retirement, he relocated to Santa Rosa and utilized his decades of industry wisdom and expertise to found his own executive coaching business.

He is preceded in death by his daughters Jessica and Sarah Kathryn 'Kate' Yang. His wife, Georgia Lindberg Yang of Santa Rosa; his daughter, Genevieve Yang Yurgionas and her husband, Brian Yurgionas, of Mill Valley; and his son Jay Houston Yang of Los Angeles survive him.

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