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- LEE Kuan Yew 李光耀
- November 9, 2022
- October 02, 2010 (89)
- December 21, 1920
Kwa Geok Choo was born on 21 December 1920, in Singapore as the daughter of Kwa Siew Tee and Wee Yew Neo. She married Harry Lee Kuan Yew in December 1948, in Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom. She died on 2 October 2010, in Singapore, at the age of 89, and was buried in Singapore.
Kwa Geok Choo (Chinese: 柯玉芝; pinyin: Kē Yùzhī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Koa Gio̍k-tsi; 21 December 1920 – 2 October 2010) was a Singaporean lawyer. She was the wife of Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore and the mother of Lee Hsien Loong, Lee Hsien Yang, and Lee Wei Ling.
Kwa Geok Choo (Chinese: 柯玉芝; pinyin: Kē Yùzhī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kua Gio̍k-tsi; 21 December 1920 – 2 October 2010) was most widely known as the wife of Singapore's former Minister Mentor and former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, and one of the partners in the law firm Lee & Lee.
Mar 11, 2021 · Kwa Geok Choo was a stellar student who topped the whole of Malaya in the 1936 Senior Cambridge examination. Then 16 years old, she joined a special class at Raffles Institution for students competing for the prestigious Queen’s Scholarship; she was the only girl in the boys’ school.
Biography. Kwa was the daughter of Kwa Siew Tee, [5] former general manager of Oversea-Chinese Bank and Singapore Municipal Commissioner who was a Tong'anese on his paternal side who also had a Teochew mother, and Wee Yew Neo, Geok Choo's Teochew mother was from Shantou.
