Humble Beginnings
In 1963, a respectable humble businessman Mr. Tee Hock Chwee saw a need that was not sufficiently met in Singapore. There was a lack of companies offering funeral services for Singaporeans. Borrowing ideas from his hometown mainland China, he started his own undertaker company - Hock Hin Undertaker. Life was hard then. Every coffin had to be specially crafted using bare hands and one funeral could take up an entire day. Focused with the end in mind though, Mr.Tee managed to bring the company to greater heights through the years. The way funerals are conducted have changed over the years and yet the one thing that remains unchanged is the unswerving attitude to serve the people of Singapore.
Fast forward a few decades, his very own granddaughter has herself entered the same trade to carry on the family business with a new face uplift. Well perhaps somethings just runs in the blood - the passion to serve and the courage to be in this trade where most people shun from.