Kwa Geok Choo

Kwa Geok Choo
柯玉芝
Kwa in 1985
Spouse of the Prime Minister of Singapore
In role
5 June 1959 – 28 November 1990
Prime MinisterLee Kuan Yew
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byTan Choo Leng
Personal details
Born
Kwa Geok Choo

(1920-12-21)21 December 1920
Singapore, Straits Settlements, British Malaya
Died2 October 2010(2010-10-02) (aged 89)
Singapore
Resting placeMandai Crematorium and Columbarium
Political partyPeople's Action Party (1959–1990)
Spouse
(m. 1950)
ChildrenLee Hsien Loong (son)
Lee Wei Ling (daughter)
Lee Hsien Yang (son)
EducationMethodist Girls' School[1]
Raffles Institution
Alma materRaffles College
Girton College, Cambridge (BA)
OccupationLawyer[2]

Kwa Geok Choo (Chinese: 柯玉芝; pinyin: Kē Yùzhī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Koa Gio̍k-tsi; 21 December 1920 – 2 October 2010)[3] was a Singaporean lawyer. She was the wife of Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore and the mother of Lee Hsien Loong, Lee Hsien Yang, and Lee Wei Ling.[4]

She was the co-founder and partner of law firm Lee & Lee and took the role as the spouse of the Prime Minister of Singapore between 1959 and 1990.

  1. ^ "Orbituary of Mdm Kwa Geok Choo, 1920 – 2010". Archived from the original on 8 January 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  2. ^ "Kwa Geok Choo". Singapore Council of Women's Organisations (SCWO). Archived from the original on 23 March 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Mrs Lee Kuan Yew dies at age 89". MediaCorp Channel NewsAsia. 2 October 2010. Archived from the original on 3 November 2010. Retrieved 2 October 2010.
  4. ^ "Goodbye Mrs Lee Kuan Yew (Madam Kwa Geok Choo), we shall miss you dearly". Mathew's Photography Singapore. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2015.