Nirvana Memorial Park – Kota Kinabalu 2018-11-26 MON 12:20
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| Resting place of ancestors |
Resting place of Great-grandmother and Grandparent.
As a respect and remembrance of the ancestors, we pay a visit and offered a prayer in Nirvana Memorial Park富貴山莊 (亞庇) about 8 km from the city. Shirley, though married to the Wong family for over 20 years, this is her first time to visit this ancestor site.
Great-grandmother and Grandparent came to Borneo Island from China during the darkest history of China 100 years ago. Their six children were all born in North Borneo (now Sabah). As descending continue, there are now grand and great-grand children being born in Australia and Canada.
This is not the ancestors’ original burial place. This is their migrated and integrated grave in 1999. Three of them were originally buried separately in a small old cemetery near Kota Kinabalu city. In order that the future descendents can easier to find them together, their remaining bones were collected and transferred into this modern cemetery.
We are descendents of the Hakka people from Guangzhou 廣州 in Southern China, as their tombstone reminded us.
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