Mrs Tan Hong Tek nee Quah Cheng Lian

on
Tan Hong Teck
陳鴻德



















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 1937
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 

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 



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








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




Choir sings at graveside
The Straits Times, 2 September 1952, Page 7
无标题
南洋商报, 4 September 1952, Page 8





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