A centenarian who built traditional attap houses to raise eight children before becoming a newspaper vendor has died.
Lim Theng Kow, 101, passed peacefully at home last Friday (Oct 16).
His youngest son, Guicheng (transliteration), told Shin Min Daily News at the funeral wake that he has one brother and six sisters.
Lim, 55, said his father — who came to Singapore from Guangdong, South China with his parents when he was a teenager — initially made a living working in construction, building wooden, stilt and attap houses to support his wife and children.
When demand for traditional houses faded alongside the rise of public housing, Theng Kow began selling newspapers by the roadside.
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