Madame Nguyen Van Thieu

Madame Thiệu died on Friday, October 15, 2021, at her own residence in San Diego County, California.

Prior to the Fall of Saigon, President Thiệu announced his resignation on television. The family left South Vietnam on 21 April 1975 to Taiwan. They later moved to London before settling in Boston, Massachusetts. Nguyễn Văn Thiệu died on 29 September 2001 of a stroke in the aftermath of September 11.

In 1969, she established the Women's Volunteer Service Organization towards calling for donations to build an infirmary for low classes and working completely free, certainly. So For-People Hospital was inaugurated at the end of 1971. The contemporary press identified it as the most ultramodern hospital in whole Southeast Asia. However, after April 30 sorrowful event, it has been expropriated to treat high-ranking officials by the new regime. Folks wrote satiric at verse it as "For-Official" hospital. Today it is called officially as the Unification Hospital. This was also a place where cured malaria from "Laotian officer" Mai Phúc in 1977, or afterwards future Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.

She was the wife of Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, a Vietnamese general and politician, who served as President of the Republic of Vietnam from 1967 until his resignation in 1975.

From 1967 to 1975, her husband reached the peak of power. Unlike First Lady Trần Lệ Xuân, she did not participate in politics at all, but rather engaged in social activities. In 1972, an American working in Vietnam asked for permission to take the name of Mrs. Nguyễn Thi Mai Anh for an orchid Brassolaeliocattleya Mai Anh.

In her youth, she and her sister, Tám Hảo, often went to Saigon to study and visit relatives. Due to the family's acquaintance with pharmacist Huynh Van Xuan, who worked at the Trang Hai Apothecary Institute, the two sisters worked as pharmacists at the Roussell Apothecary Institute. Huynh Van Xuan worked as a matchmaker for Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. Mai Anh's uncle, Đặng Văn Quang, was in Da Lat with Thieu, so the relationship was quickly promoted. There were some obstacles because Mai Anh was a Catholic, while Thiệu was Buddhist. They officially wed in 1951. In 1958, Thiệu was baptized as a Catholic. Mai Anh and Thiệu had three children : two sons (Nguyễn Quang Lộc, Nguyễn Thiệu Long) and daughter (Nguyễn Thị Tuấn Anh).

Nguyễn Thị Mai Anh (20 June 1930 – 15 October 2021), commonly known as Madame Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (Vietnamese: Phu-nhơn Tổng-thống Thiệu), served as First Lady of South Vietnam (Vietnamese: Nhứt-phẩm Phu-nhơn) from 1967 to 1975.

Nguyễn Thị Mai Anh was born on June 20, 1930, in Mỹ Tho town, with saint's name Christine the seventh of ten children in a Catholic family. As her family were wealthy herbal medicine practitioners, she was greatly influenced by the feudal order and family especially in the way she treated people.