YowCH’s dad’s funeral
YowCH’s dad, Yow Ka Meng, passed away peacefully on the afternoon of 6 Dec 2019 (while we were in Busan, Korea). He was 74. We rearranged our flight immediately to return to PJ (via AirAsia from Busan to KLIA2) on 7 Dec 2019, arriving home at about 5:30pm. Here’s a photo of dad, taken in 2006 (Yan’s wedding) which we used for the death notice, the framed photo and also to put with the urn.
On Sunday, we prepared the home to received dad’s body and casket. Friends and relatives started coming over to visit from Sunday late morning.
Dad final rites were conducted in a Buddhist ceremony. Mom was offering dad his favourite KL Hokkien thick noodles.
Some rites were conducted on Sunday night, before the guests left at about 11:30pm.
We stayed up the whole night, as per tradition.
On Monday (9 Dec) morning, we viewed the body once more before the coffin was sealed.
Then the procession to send him off.
We cremated dad’s body at the MPPJ Crematorium at 10:20am.
After the cremation, we went home for a quick lunch, before returning to the crematorium to collect the bones.
After preparing the urn with the bones, we drove to the Kwangtung YiSan Columbarium.
Dad’s urn is housed in 9-C-3002.
Esther and David left with Gene and Grace’s parents by car as they needed to run Youth Camp for Church.
With the funeral completed, the family went out for dinner at Paradigm Mall.
The next morning (10 Dec, Tuesday), we had food at Taikong.
YowCH, Grace, Yan and PQ then went to Uptown for massage. Later, the Tans, the children and mom joined us at Uptown for dinner.
To end the night, we had supper at Kayu.
On Wednesday, 11 Dec, we flew with Yan’s family to Singapore via AirAsia.
