Sybil Kathigasu is best known for her connection with PAPAN. After her torture at the hands of the Japanese during the Japanese occupation of Malaya, Sybil died in 1948 in Britain and was buried in Scotland, However her body was later returned to Ipoh and she was laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery at St Michaels Church (not to be confused with St Michael's Institution).
[Additional note from Law Siak Hong - The coffin with her body was exhumed and put inside another coffin and brought back to Ipoh by ship to Penang, then by train to Ipoh.]
Her husband Dr Kathigasu is buried in the Catholic cemetery at Tambun.
For more on Papan, see Papan Memories.
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