Post by NZBC on Nov 23, 2013 6:33:23 GMT 12
Evelyn Eng Lau Dai Kuan 吳劉棣群 Shak-ha village 石下村
3 August 1919 – 29 August 2013
Evelyn was born in Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada, the third of four children, to Lowe Gung Hu a tailor and Wong Yien Gung from Gwa Liang village. At the age of ten, the whole family went back to China for twenty years where she had her schooling and later married her husband Ng Yoong Gee吳濃枝 from Ngar Yiew village 雅瑤村 where her eldest son Edgar was born. They returned to Canada via Hong Kong in 1951 just after the Chinese Government closed off their borders for emigration overseas and later Barry & Gloria were born in Vancouver. The family emigrated to New Zealand in 1960 and settled in Lower Hutt to be near their relatives Ng Ting Wing吳田穩 and Ng Wai Wing吳怀穩 of Petone. They opened a fruit shop in Lower Hutt in High Street until her husband died in 1975 and then retired. She was admitted to hospital after a fall at home and later died there.
She is survived by her son Edgar and his family, her daughter Gloria and younger son Barry.
Her funeral was held on Saturday 7 September 2013 at Gee and Hickton Funeral chapel in Lower Hutt and was at-tended by many relatives and friends.
Adapted from information by Barry Eng
3 August 1919 – 29 August 2013
Evelyn was born in Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada, the third of four children, to Lowe Gung Hu a tailor and Wong Yien Gung from Gwa Liang village. At the age of ten, the whole family went back to China for twenty years where she had her schooling and later married her husband Ng Yoong Gee吳濃枝 from Ngar Yiew village 雅瑤村 where her eldest son Edgar was born. They returned to Canada via Hong Kong in 1951 just after the Chinese Government closed off their borders for emigration overseas and later Barry & Gloria were born in Vancouver. The family emigrated to New Zealand in 1960 and settled in Lower Hutt to be near their relatives Ng Ting Wing吳田穩 and Ng Wai Wing吳怀穩 of Petone. They opened a fruit shop in Lower Hutt in High Street until her husband died in 1975 and then retired. She was admitted to hospital after a fall at home and later died there.
She is survived by her son Edgar and his family, her daughter Gloria and younger son Barry.
Her funeral was held on Saturday 7 September 2013 at Gee and Hickton Funeral chapel in Lower Hutt and was at-tended by many relatives and friends.
Adapted from information by Barry Eng