About 40 mourners gathered at a small funeral home on the outskirts of Atlanta on Sunday afternoon to say goodbye to a woman they had never met.
The body of Daoyou Feng, one of the victims of last month’s shooting at three spas in the area, was unclaimed in a morgue for seven days after she was murdered. On Sunday, Mrs. Feng buried.
The Chinese American community in Atlanta held a memorial to Mrs. Feng in a funeral home and then buried her ashes in a local cemetery. The events followed the wishes of Ms. Feng’s family, who were unable to come to the US due to travel restrictions.
Charles Li, one of the founders of the Atlanta Chinese American Alliance, a volunteer organization that helps local Chinese in need, said the Chinese Embassy in Washington contacted him on March 26 asking for help with handling her funeral.
Mrs. Feng, a Chinese citizen who died at the age of 44, was unmarried and without children. She is survived by two brothers and a sister, and her mother, who is in poor health, said Dr. Li, who spoke at the memorial service. The youngest in her family, she was born and raised on a rural farm in Lianjiang, China’s southern Guangdong province.