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Prisca Ho dedicated her life to caring for and serving others. Before becoming a nurse, she worked as a dietitian and later pursued nursing through night school, graduating from Mount St. Mary’s University in Los Angeles in 2010. Her career included work at California Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital doing regulatory compliance and diabetes education. Ultimately for seven years she was a school nurse with LAUSD—a role she truly loved. She was a fierce advocate for her students, always finding creative ways to navigate obstacles and make sure children received the medications, immunizations, and care they needed.
Even as her own health declined, her thoughts remained with her students. Just days before her final hospitalization, she was still communicating with her schools and thinking about field trips, immunizations, and the school year ahead.
For 16 years, she faced cancer with remarkable determination while continuing to live a full and meaningful life. She traveled the world, visiting places including Hong Kong, Japan, Vienna, Switzerland, and other parts of Europe, and her family remembers getting all too familiar with the healthcare systems in each of those countries. Her siblings remember an outgoing, strong-minded, and wonderfully social woman—a “people magnet” who could walk into a shop and leave knowing the owner’s entire life story. As the oldest sister, she was never shy about telling her siblings what she thought, and her family will surely feel the absence of that voice. She was known as a frugal woman but so generous with her time and energy for others. She cared deeply about people, social justice, immigrant rights, and protecting the environment.
Though her life ended far too soon at 48, her influence lives on in her family, her friends, her nursing colleagues, and the countless students whose lives were made better because she cared enough to advocate for them. We honor not only the nurse she was, but the life of service she lived.
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