‘Thank you for everything’: NZ couple pay last respects to former amah in Singapore after 40-year search


The visit to the columbarium on Dec 22 by Mrs Laurie Rands (left) and her husband marked a bittersweet end to their search for their amah. - ST PHOTO: SHINTARO TAY

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): 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 eyes.

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