About 40 mourners gathered Sunday afternoon in a small funeral home on the outskirts of Atlanta to say goodbye to a woman they had never met.
The body of Daoyou Feng, one of the victims of the shooting at three spas last month, lay unclaimed in a morgue for seven days after she was killed. On Sunday, Ms Feng was laid to rest.
The Chinese-American community in Atlanta held a memorial service for Ms. Feng at a funeral home and buried her ashes in a local cemetery. The events follow the wishes of Ms Feng’s family, who could not come to the USA due to travel restrictions.
Charles Li, a founding member of the Atlanta Chinese American Alliance, a volunteer organization that helps local Chinese people in need, said the Chinese embassy in Washington contacted him on March 26 to ask for help in handling her funeral.
Ms Feng, a Chinese citizen who died at the age of 44, was unmarried and childless. She is survived by two brothers and a sister, and her mother, who is in poor health, says dr. Li, who spoke at the memorial. She was the youngest in her family and was born and raised on a rural farm in Lianjiang, in the southern province of Guangdong in China.