- Kwa Geok Choo
Kwa Geok Choo (zh-cp |c=柯玉芝 |p=Kē Yùzhī) (1921-) was one of the partners in law firm, Lee & Lee.
She is also the wife of
Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew inSingapore and a former pupil of Singapore'sMethodist Girls' School and Cambridge University, where she was a Queen's Scholar from Malaya [http://www.pscscholarships.gov.sg/SCHOLARSHIPS/History_and_Evolution.htm] . In Lee's biography, he stated that he first met Kwa in 1944 at a party, and courted her from 1946. Kwa marriedLee Kuan Yew onSeptember 30 1950 , and they have two sons and one daughter. Her eldest son isLee Hsien Loong and her second son isLee Hsien Yang . She has one brother, Dr. Kwa Soon Bee who retired as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, and two sisters, Mrs. Yong Nyuk Lin and the late Mrs. Earnest Lau.During Lee's years as
Prime Minister andSenior Minister , Kwa was frequently seen with her husband, especially on diplomatic trips and meetings with other foreign ministers. She suffered a brain haemorrhage in 2008.References
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