Friday 9 October 2009

My Toa Kor

Say not in grief that she is no more
but say in thankfulness that she was
A death is not the extinguishing of a light,
but the putting out of the lamp
because the dawn has come.
~ Rabindranath Tagore ~


My eldest aunt passed away last night at age 85. She was born in China and came over with my grandparents in the early 1930s. She worked as a midwife for all of her adult life. She never married but adopted a baby girl. Just the other day my mom was saying how lucky my aunt is to have a daughter who looked after her during her illness. My cousin would drive out to buy whatever my aunt craved to eat that day.

3 comments:

  1. my condolances on the death of your Aunt, It sounds like she lived a long and good life.

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  2. Please accept my deepest sympathies on the loss of your beloved Aunt. Treasure your memories for they will sustain you in your time of grief.

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  3. My sympathies to you and your family over the loss of your Aunt. She must have been a very special person.

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