As the Fall of Saigon was occurring, he and his family fled from the advancing forces of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam and PAVN and was admitted entry into the U.S. as refugees. He first settled in Greeley, Colorado in 1975 then relocated to Loveland, Colorado on 19 May 1979 where he would live for the remainder of his life.https://www.greeleytribune.com/2002/11/26/obituaries-cornelia-mitzel-ut-pham-gladys-williams/ He was employed at Hewlett-Packard for 15 years, retiring in 1992.https://www.greeleytribune.com/2002/11/26/obituaries-cornelia-mitzel-ut-pham-gladys-williams/ He was a member of the Benevolent Association of Nationalist Vietnamese in Colorado and the Association of Elderly Vietnamese in Colorado.
