Families mark Qing Ming at Christian cemetery too

Paying respects: Loved ones gathering to pay homage to their departed kin at the Nirvana Memorial Park in Semenyih. (Left) Ong P.K. placing flowers at her husband’s grave at the Western Road Christian cemetery in Jalan Utama, Penang.

GEORGE TOWN: Cemeteries were packed with visitors on the eve of Qing Ming, and the Western Road Christian cemetery in Jalan Utama was no different.

Among the many who went there was businessman Ong Kwong Hooi, who prayed at his great-great-grandmother’s grave with his wife and two daughters.