Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and his wife Kwa Geok Choo attend a May Day rally in Singapore May 1, 2006.
President SR Nathan and his wife issued a five-paragraph statement which paid tribute to Mrs Lee’s “greatness” as someone who had loyally stood by her husband, Lee Kuan Yew, through thick and thin.
The statement praised her for being a ”legal luminary, as a mother of an illustrious family, and more than that for her stoic presence next to Mr Lee Kuan Yew during times of turbulence and tension in the many years of his political struggle.”
The statement also said she was MM Lee’s constant “companion, confidante and counsel, and we may never fully appreciate the impact and influence she had in shaping Minister Mentor’s thinking and life.”
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