Dr. Grace Shu with Vice President Dick Cheney at Williamsport Regional Airport in 2004,

Local doctors Dr. Jason Shu, M.D., and Dr. Grace Shu, M.D., Ph.D. looked back fondly on their friendship with former Vice-President Dick Cheney, who died at 84 years old on November 3, 2025. The official cause of death was complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. Cheney’s televised November 20, 2025 state funeral, with full military honors, was held at the Washington National Cathedral. Eulogists included former president George W. Bush, daughter Liz Cheney, his grandchildren, his former Department of Defense press secretary, NBC’s Pete Williams, and his long-time cardiologist, Jonathan Reiner, M.D., who is a medical school professor at George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences.

“It’s true that Dick was often quiet and reserved, and always respectful,” Chairwoman on U.S. Asian American Voters Coalition, also a Senior Advisor for US Public Health Service, Dr. Grace Shu remembered. “He would listen to all different points of view and then come to a decision, and when he spoke, everyone know that he was a serious man,” she added. “People tend to forget that he was overwhelmingly confirmed as Secretary of Defense, 92-0, in 1989, during a very delicate time in America’s foreign relations — the end of the Cold War and the coming collapse of the Soviet Union,” Dr. Grace Shu said.