Deceased casino godfather Stanley Ho’s elder sister has reportedly passed away earlier this week at the age of 106.
According to Chinese-language Macao News Daily, Nanette Ho Yuen Hung, better known as ‘the eighth girl’, passed away on 28 February, with a funeral service to be held at the Kiang Wu Hospital at 11:00 tomorrow (4 March 2023).
The news was also confirmed by Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau (STDM) and SJM Resorts SA, which jointly issued an obituary yesterday.
Ho had 13 brothers and sisters, with Stanley Ho – dubbed the ‘king of gaming’ who died aged 98 in May 2020 – being the ninth of them.
A long-time educator, Ho committed herself to teaching after studying at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Edinburgh.
She was married to her classmate in 1942, and had a daughter the next year. However, it was reported that her husband had gone missing during a war in Shanghai in 1945.
Her daughter – a well-known portrait painter and sculptor – died of a disease in 1999.
In order to commemorate her deeply loved daughter, Ho set up an exhibition dedicated to her artworks at the Macau Tower in 2005.
