She grew up on Tyler Street in Boston, near Denison House, where Amelia Earhart was a social worker in the 1920s.

[2] The Chinese Patriotic Flying Corps was formed in the early 1930s to assist China in its defense against Japanese aggression.

A Boston Globe reporter writing about her first solo flight in May 1932 referred to her as "a winsome Chinese maid".

[5] On June 12, 1932, at a Chinatown celebration honoring the flyers, Lok gave a "stirring address on the need of airplanes in China with Chinese pilots".

[1] She was memorialized by the Ninety-Nines with a tree at the International Forest of Friendship, and is remembered on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.