Message from Hilda Lee (May 10)

From: Hilda Lee
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 6:20 PM
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Subject: thank you from Hilda Lee

Dear SPCC 66 friends:

It has been 2 months since Robert passed away. I am so sorry that I haven't sent a word to thank you all for your condolences. Today is mother's day that Alex Chai called me in the morning to wish me happy mother's day. Last week Marina Wong came and brought me a check with the donations collected by Peter Chung and other friends in Vancouver. We had lunch together and chatted for sometime. I feel that I must get this letter out sooner because I owe you all so much.

I am very grateful that Robert had such good friends who not only are so close but so caring. Even though Robert was listed in a "dead list" before he was "found" again, the friends like Alex Chai, Marina Wong, Jeffrey Ma, Peter Chung, Henry Kwan, Spenser Lui, just to name a few, that Robert had not seen for over 30 some years, could laugh and talk with Robert like good old friends.

I am so moved that Ronnie Poon, Roger Cheung and others came several hundred miles away to attend the memorial service. With the beautiful and emotional eulogies Alex and Roger gave, the generous donations, the expensive but beautiful flowers, and the website composed of shared thoughts from friends and the memorable photos, I could not be more than grateful to all these you have done to me.

Although Robert had cancer for 2 years, and in the last stage he was in and out of hospital for 2 months, I felt that he left me suddenly. I still feel his existence. He left me with 2 beautiful and lovely children, a good financial standing, and a career that he had never hindered but encouraged and assisted to establish.

I wish I could have had more time to sit in the spa with Robert in the weekends, walk around the blocks early in the morning, play tennis and go on vacations on holidays, talk about everything from family to the world. I wish I could have had more chances to share the happiness with him and comfort him when he felt sad.