31. End of Our Primogenitors in Malaya

Our grandmother's death in 1955 marked the end of the primogenitors of our Chan clan to Malaya. Thereafter, it fell upon our father Chung Chow and mother Lee Mooi to head the Chung family and to lead it to the next level.

Father was then 40 years old, and mother, 30. Life continued as usual with our father working hard at his job at Loke Woh and mother had taken over the sole responsibility of making the Taoist paper paraphernalia and images. We were in our teens and often helped our mother made paper shirts, shoes and hats.

A year and a half after grandmother's demise, our mother Lee Mooi gave birth to her eighth child: See Kun was born on February 14, 1957.

Our granduncle Chan Ting Yang a.k.a. Kee Ray passed away in Kamunting on 27 March 1959 at the age of 59.