Showing posts with label Phuah Hin Leong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phuah Hin Leong. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Lim Cheng Law (L. C. L.), death 31 August 1964, Penang

20,000 letters up—LCL dies at 81. By Khor Cheang Kee. PENANG, Mon. --- Mr. Lim Cheng Law --- better known as plain L.C.L., champion writer of "letters to the editor" --- died in his Logan Road home here yesterday. He was 81. He died at 6.45 p.m. after complaining to his wife that he was not feeling well. The funeral has been fixed provisionally for Thursday. Mr. Lim, a Justice of the Peace, was a member of one of the oldest Chinese families in the country. He liked to regard himself as a spare time journalist and wrote his first letter to the Press in 1907. 'FORGOTTEN.' "I have forgotten what it was about," he once told me, "but I could never forget the thrill of seeing my initials in print for the first time." That was only a start. In the next halff century, L.C.L. was to see 20,000 of his letters published. He had a prodigious memory and a sure grasp of facts and figutes. His knowledge of men and affairs extended beyond Penang, or Malaysia. AUTHORITY. He was an acknowledged authorrity on Ceylon and was probably the only Malaysian with a complete set of the Ceylon Hansard. For over half a century, L.C.L. collected books, pamphlets, articles and press cuttings. He had a roomful of files of his letters to newspapers. His last letter which appeared in the local Press a few days before his own death, was in praise of the late Mrs. Saw Choo Theng, wife of the Penang banker and rubber magnate. Today, L.C.L.'s pen is still --- and Malaysian journalism has lost one of its oldest and best known characters. [The Straits Times, 1 September 1964, Page 7]

L.C.L's funeral. Penang, Thurs. --- Many old residents of Penang were among a large gathering at the funeral today of Mr. Lim Cheng Law, better known through his "Letters to the Editor" as LCL. [The Straits Times, 4 September 1964, Page 8]

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Ong Teng Neoh (Mrs. Phuah Hin Leong), death 18 February 1932, Penang

Death from Bronchitis At Age of 83.  The death took place this morning from bronchitis of Mrs. Phua Hin Loong, at the age of 83. Mrs. Phua Hin Loong, who was well known as a benefactress, and philantrophist, was the mother of Mr. Lim Cheng Ean, the Legislative Councillor, Mr. Lim Cheng Teik, Mr. Lim Cheng Law, Mr Lim Cheng Kung, four other sons and five daughters.  [The Straits Times, 18 February 1932, Page 12 MRS. PHUA HIN LOONG.]

Imposing funeral procession in Penang of the late Mrs. Phuah Hin Leong which was attended by over two thousand people. [Malayan Saturday Post, 2 April 1932, Page 24]