KUANTAN: A daughter of the late Datuk Wong Ah Jang, a prominent businessman who named her after a district in Johor, has died of illness.
Wong Pontian died in Negri Sembilan on Sunday after being hospitalised at the Seremban Hospital. She was 82.
With her death, retired headmaster Wong Bentong remains the only surviving sibling of the 13 children from Ah Jang’s three wives who were named after places and a steamship.
While Pontian’s name was picked from a district in Johor, Ah Jang named 10 of his children after places in Pahang.
One of his children was also named Pahang while another daughter was named Krona, after a steamship that once brought goods from Singapore.
A relative of Pontian, Vincent Jiam, said she had gone to see her brother Bentong in Seremban, where she fell ill and was hospitalised.
Her remains were brought here on Monday after she died a day earlier.
Jiam said she would be buried at the Tanjung Api Christian cemetery today after memorial services at the Kuantan Chapel in Jalan Datuk Wang Ah Jiang.
Jiam, an activist of the “Save Malaysia, Stop Lynas” movement, said Pontian, who was his wife’s grand-aunt, was fondly known as Aunt Pon.
“We were close to her and she was a wonderful woman.
“She was supportive of me and would pray for my safety,” added Jiam, formerly the chairman of the anti-Lynas group.
Ah Jang’s other children included Kwan Tan (named after Kuantan), Pekan, Lipis and Raub (all districts in Pahang).
Among the others were Gambang and Beserah (from towns near Kuantan) and Jelai (named after a small town near Fraser’s Hill).
Two others were named after rivers in Pahang, Boo Latt (named after the Belat river) and Lembing (from the river of the same name).
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