2005.5.14=6[#134]:4703.4.7[+#35/60]: In LA out shopping waiting, 3pm Betty ceremony in then outside, then 2 full tables rich dinner.

Fair warm to hot: Mei bath, then 6:00 up bath, 7:10 diary & calenders, down to free and simple breakfast of French bread and cakes, Hsiang & Jung join expressing Hsiang is ok now so they are driving back by themselves, after checking out from hotel to his elder sister's place tonight. Lung drive us to mall stores just around the hotel getting a electric outlet connetor for $2.14. Back to hotel room, finally succeeded in tel. Ying determine to meet at hotel at 1:30 and leave at 2:00. We go back to Ching-jen Guan (V.I.P.) for a pretty good and cheap lunch for us three, at 18331 E. Colima Rd./Fullerton Bl., Rowland Heights. Back to hotel, they are late, but Ying tells Lung afternoon's locations with a noted hotel's tiny LA map. Lung drives to SkyRose Chapel, Rose Hills Mem. Park, Whittier. Meet Ying's good, old friend, Liu Mao-jung, his wife & son. From 3:05, Fev. Alan Chan officiates "In Loving Memory of Mrs. Betty K.[ing] Tsai (October 28, 1940-May 6, 2005)", against very bad straight sunlight blare: Call to Worship: Psalm 90:1-2, by Rev. Alan Chan Hymn: Amazing Grace, by Congregation Eulogy: Nancy Hou, tr. by Ellen Lim Words of Remembrace: Kathy Tsai, tr. by Ellen Lim; Edmond Cheung; Ellen Lim; Ariel Fon-Fon Young Words of Comfort: Rev. Alan Chan Words of Appreciation: Bill Tsai Benediction: Rev. Alan Chan Last Respects: Mom's kind words, and almost sure Bill kissed her, and he and Kathy caress gently at the last moments. Lung, Mao-jung's son and others move Betty to outside in the park for the Committal Sercice in the rightmost of 4 plot Bill has bought. It's a beautiful park with far and broad views. We leave flowers on top of box, which then was lowered into hole and soil is moved by car-machine. Lung drives us to Shu-hsian-yuan 6:30, 2 full tables of very rich dinner. Later hours, Ying moves to our table of next generation and Jung & her hus, sis-hus, stating what happened then. The other table of mom, Dju-hus, Edmond's parents, Emma, and Betty's old couple friends. Back to hotel, Lung & Jen (Chen-chen) tel. talk for a while. Bed 10:45!!