Teresa Hsu . . .
1900 : Born in Shantou, Guangdong province, China .
Born in Shantou in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong in 1900, this plunky,
silver-haired woman looks decades younger, with a body as agile, and a mind as sharp,
as a teenager. This attributes to a simple but activelife, which begins daily at 4 am
with meditation, yoga and a morning walk near her home in Hougang.
1927 : Moved to Penang with mother, two sisters and a younger brother. Received
her English education in a convent there .
1933 : Left Penang for Hongkong to work as cleaner and clerk.
1937 : Went to Chongqing in China to work as secretary at a German news agency
before joining voluntary service to help the injured in the war .
1945 : Studied nursing in London and Worked in hospitals there .
1953 : Sent to Paraguay to help start a hospital and homes for the aged sick .
1961 : Returned home to Penang . Sister-in-charge of the Assunta Foundation,
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia .
1963 : Came to Singapore and took up post as matron of Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital.
Started the Heart-to-Heart Service .
1965 : Set up Home for the Aged Sick in Jalan Payoh Lai. Picked up yoga from
an Indian master.
1973 : Sisters ursula and Lucy, both school principals, and brother Anthony, a Roman
Catholic priest, died .
1981 : Mother, Madam Tan Sok Chan, died, aged 104 .
1985 : Retired as matron of the Home for the Aged Sick .
1988 : Awarded the Guinness Stout Effort Award .
1994 : Received the Life insurance Association Award for her charity work .
1999 : Moved to new home at Hougang Avenue 1 with the Home for the Aged Sick
from Jalan Payoh Lai .
2000 : Plans to start a service centre in a rented flat in Chin Swee Road to
help the old and destitute .
" Revival must come, the Prophets redeem . . . "
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