Kenneth Kwong Chee Siu, MD, FRCS, FACS, D. Min died peacefully at home in Mountain View, Missouri on the morning of December 5, 2020, having lain down to sleep in Christ and awakened in the presence of his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Kenneth was born September 7, 1928, to his father, Siu Hon Kit, and his mother, Choy Kam Ching, in Hong Kong. After his education was interrupted by World War II, he graduated from Diocesan Girls School in Hong Kong and went on to the University of Hong Kong, from which he received his MD in 1952. He then traveled to Akron, Ohio for an internship and then Baltimore, Maryland for a surgical residency at Maryland General Hospital. While there, he met and later married Mary Elizabeth Faber on August 22, 1956. Together they have had five children. He returned to Hong Kong in 1959, where he worked as a surgeon, but in 1968 he emigrated to the United States, settling in Jefferson City, Missouri, and later becoming a naturalized citizen. He operated a private surgical practice there until his retirement in 1990. He was active in the community as a member of Rotary International, First United Methodist Church, and then First Baptist Church, and as a leader in the Boy Scouts of America. He was a Mason and a Shriner. He was a founder of the Jefferson City YMCA.
After his retirement from surgical practice, he submitted to the call to ministry and attended Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary from which he received a Masters of Divinity in 1994. He was ordained and served as an Associate Pastor at Oakwood Baptist Church in Kansas City, Missouri from 1992-1994. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a missionary by the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (now the International Mission Board) and served as the director of their Hope Medical Clinic in Macau, China. Upon completing four years of service for the mission board, he was called to be the Pastor of Sa Lei Tau Baptist Church in Macau. While serving as the pastor he continued his education at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and received his Doctorate of Ministry in 2005. He continued to pastor Sa Lei Tau church until 2008, when he retired and then moved to Mountain View, Missouri. In Mountain View, he became a member of First Baptist Church, Mountain View, where he taught an adult class. He also taught at Southwest Baptist University’s Mountain View campus. He served as interim pastor and supply pastor for several small churches near Mountain View. He was called back to Macau several times to serve as pastor for one-year terms at Sa Lei Tau Baptist Church, until 2015 when he suffered a brain hemorrhage and retired again. Even in his declining years, he retained a passion and ability for sharing the gospel and continued to lead people to Christ. He shared his story and that passion in a book he began writing in 2008 and published in 2018, Total Transformation: From Healing the Body to Healing the Soul.
Kenneth was preceded in death by his parents; his grandchildren, Anthony Kenneth Dinolfo and Kathleen Elizabeth Dinolfo, of Jefferson City, Missouri, and Natalie Day McMullen, of Kansas City, Missouri; his older brother, Fred Siu, of Windsor, Ontario; and his sister, Margaret Chan, of Toronto, Ontario.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Elizabeth Siu; his sister, Patsy Sun of Hong Kong; his children, Ravenna Kay Dinolfo of Jefferson City, Missouri, Stephen Marcus Siu, of Osage Beach, Missouri, Deborah Jean Brosch, of Chesapeake, Virginia, Rebecca Mary Romine, of Birch Tree, Missouri, and Yvette Elizabeth (McMullen) Tataje, of Fort Collins, Colorado; seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
The family will hold a memorial service for church members and family on Friday, December 18, 2020, at 7:00 p.m., at First Baptist Church in Mountain View, Missouri. The service will observe social distancing and will also be broadcast on the church’s Facebook Live, and remain viewable for two weeks. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial gifts be made to the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board. Gifts may be given through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering at First Baptist Church, or through your local Southern Baptist church. Condolences may be expressed at www.yarbermortuary.com.
