Singapore News - Standing in front of Madam Lily Wong’s urn in a quiet columbarium, New Zealander Laurie Rands was finally able to say what she had been longing to tell her former amah for the last 50 years. “Goodbye, Lily, and thank you for everything,” she said, with tears in her. Read more at www.tnp.sg
It was 1971 when Frank Rands and his wife Laurie Rands moved to Singapore, after Frank was posted here by the New Zealand Navy, and worked at the then Sembawang Naval Base.
Singapore News - When Mrs Laurie Rands first came to live in Singapore in 1971 with her serviceman husband Frank, she was 18 years old, newly married and did not know anyone on this tropical island. Her fears soon eased when she met her amah, or housemaid, Mrs Lily Wong, who was hired to. Read more at www.tnp.sg
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