Farewell to the second and last of the Kho Matriarch

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Maybe 1992 with my children. My Three Aunties were a great part of our lives.

Our Grandmother, the First Matriarch with 1KO (Eldest Aunt)& her sons (Singapore-based), and myself, my sister, brothers, and other cousins, probably in 1972.

On Weds 8 Dec 2021, we bid farewell to our 95-year-old aunt (great aunt) Chee Ho aka Katong (a nickname she earned while growing up in Singapore) where our grandfather owned a few grocery shops in Clarke Quay and Boat Quay, Singapore, and Main Bazaar as well as Padungan in Kuching. Sadly, none of those businesses survived down to our generation although my dad and uncles inherited the shophouses and almost all except one had since been sold. In fact, I believed my grandfather was scared to death (literally) during the Japanese Occupation in World War Two. I heard stories of how the Japanese took over our ancestorial home and the shop…

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