Tan Hong Tek
陳鴻德
鼎尾
西園
鼎尾
西園
家君陳公諱名鴻德之壽域
男
錦瑞
錦興
女
錦嬌
百拜立
Deeply Mourned by
Sons
Tan Ghim Swee
Tan Ghim Hin
Daughter
Tan Ghim Keow
Sacred to the memory of
Tan Hong Tek
Who departed this life on
In Loving Memory of
Quah Cheng Lian
The Beloved
Wife of Tan Hong Tek
Who died on
April 8th 1927
God Moves in a mysterious way
體自歸奠
氣發昭明
奠茲佳兆
永妥幽靈
Rough translation :
The body returns back
The energy emits bright
The good news cometh
The soul forever rest
既固既安
其長其久
Rest in peace as it is settled
And last a very long time
Quah Cheng Lian would be first wife of Tan Hong Tek . She passed away at the tender age of 18 and was buried in Blk 2 A plot no 118
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Straits Times, 11 April 1927, Page 8
Tan operate a successful advertising firm called Tan Publicity Bureau Ltd
New Advertising Guide To Malaya
The Straits Times, 21 April 1939, Page 13
Advertisements Column 2
The Straits Times Annual, 1 January 1940, Page 88/89
Page 2 Advertisements Column 5
The Straits Times, 30 January 1942, Page 2
Indian Daily Mail, 26 February 1952, Page 4
Tan Kiat Hin, second son of Tan Hong Tek sails for Britain to join a British university
Also known as Kenny K H Tan
He was 20 years old at that time . He later join his father advertising business
DEATHS
The Straits Times, 1 September 1952, Page 6
Tan Hong Tek died on Sun Aug 31, 1953 at his residence 12 Emerald Hill Road
MR. H. T TAN PASSES AWAY
Indian Daily Mail, 2 September 1952, Page 8
He stayed at 12 Emerald Hill
Kept vow to build church
The Straits Times, 1 September 1952, Page 5
廣告業鉅子陳鴻德逝世定今日下午四時半舉行出殯
南洋商报, 1 September 1952, Page 5
陳鴻德廣告公司創辦人 陳鴻德昨晨逝世 遺體訂今日出殯
星洲日报 (Sin Chew Jit Poh), 1 September 1952, Page 5
Indian Daily Mail, 4 September 1952, Page 16
Choir sings at graveside
The Straits Times, 2 September 1952, Page 7
无标题
南洋商报, 4 September 1952, Page 8
海澄鼎美西園人
父
陳昭梭
母
丘太夫人
妻
胡金英 Oh Kim Eng
子
吉瑞
吉興
女
素心
IN MEMORIAM
The Straits Times, 31 August 1956, Page 8
In Sacred Memory of Tan Hong Tek
The tomb epitaph : God moves in a mysterious way. Tan Hong Tek first wife died at a tender age of 18. Although the sons inscribed only has the last name corresponding to his known sons Kiat Swee and Kiat Hin, (here it is inscribed Ghim Swee and Ghim Hin), because of the Chinese poem with the Christian angle, and the phrase God moves in a mysterious way and the fact that he has the exact same name in Chinese and English, same ancestral village from the Chinese archives and the ancestral village was described to the village level , I am pretty sure the husband who built this tomb for his wife was Tan Hong Tek who made a vow to build a church during the Japanese occupation, fulfilled his vow and paid for the cost of the Methodist Church at Bedok. He was finally buried in Bidadari
Blk 2A 118, behind tomb of Wee Ann Lock
