Mr Lee said he was happy to have kept in touch with Puan Noor Aishah over the years, with one special memory taking place in 2013 when she attended Mr Lee’s – who was then Singapore prime minister – National Day Rally in which he announced the naming of a new mosque after her husband.
In 2017, Mr Lee launched a book about Puan Noor Aishah’s life and in 2019, she visited the Istana for the building’s 150th anniversary despite feeling unwell.
“We reminisced about the old times when I was a kid, about the same age as the three of you, and we would all play happily together on the Istana grounds,” Mr Lee wrote to her three children.
“Puan Noor Aishah will be deeply missed. Ho Ching and I wish you and your family comfort in this time of grief,” he said.
