Susan: “Hello, Yolanda?”

Yolanda: “Do I know you?”

Susan: “No, I’m calling for the first time.”

Yolanda: “Please call me Miss Beh then.”

This was my first encounter with Miss Yolanda Beh. She respected every single person she dealt with and demanded the same in return. She was prim and proper professionally, but a very warm, caring and loving person underneath. She was always grateful for anything you do for her, no matter how small a favour. She would return the favour with gifts and her own kind thoughts, always ever so gently and subtly. She was also very polite to a ‘T’ even among close friends. I remembered we were at a gathering held at a buffet dinner café. The other party was late and had called to ask us to go and get our food first. She was extremely hungry, yet she said it was not nice to eat before they came. Despite waiting for close to an hour, she uttered no words of unhappiness, and in fact was extremely pleased when the other party arrived safely.

She led a simple lifestyle, thrifty to herself but generous to others. That is the way, I will always remember Miss Yolanda Beh, a professional librarian with a generous and caring heart. Rest in peace.

Contributed by Susan Low