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Title: Gim Fong funeral service
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator: Leonard, Gary
Date Created and/or Issued: 2005
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
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Friends and family attending Gim Fong's funeral services at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier listen to a sermon, as pallbearers stand near Mr. Fong's casket, which is draped with an American flag, at its final resting place. Mr. Fong, who served in the Army, was the owner and proprietor of a 53-year-old museum-like shop, Fong's Oriental Works of Art, located on Chung King Road in China City, now known as Chinatown. Fong, a master artisan known for his delicate miniatures, passed away October 17th of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 74. Photograph dated October 25, 2005.'
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print:color ;13 x 18 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00104984
Gary Leonard Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b44_f3_i56
CARL0005204049
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/119554
Subject: Rose Hills Memorial Park (Whittier, Calif.)
Coffins--California--Whittier
Funeral rites and ceremonies--California--Whittier
Funeral service--California--Whittier
Cemeteries--California--Whittier
Lawns--California--Whittier
Flags--United States
Whittier (Calif.)
Gary Leonard Collection photographs

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