Yik Oi Huang
Yik Oi Huang was a Chinese-American community advocate in Visitacion Valley, San Francisco. A city park was named in her memory in 2022.
Biography
Huang was born in Taishan, Guangdong, China. She married Ho Wei Huang and had four children. The Huangs moved to the United States in 1986, to be near their daughter and grandchildren there. In San Francisco, she became a naturalized United States citizen, worked as a seamstress and nanny, and bought a home with her family in Visitacion Valley. She was known for doing daily exercises at Visitacion Valley Playground, and as an ambassador for the Visitacion Valley Friendship Club, helping other Chinese immigrant seniors access help with citizenship, food assistance, rental agreements, and emergency preparedness. She was known as Grandma Huang, or Huang PoPo, to the younger people in the neighborhood.In January 2019, Huang was attacked at the playground while doing her usual exercises. She died from her injuries a year later, at the age of 89, in a long-term care hospital in San Francisco. A teenaged suspect was arrested within days after the event, In November 2025 he was found guilty of her murder and other violent crimes.