HONG KONG - The late entertainer Lydia Sum will be buried in Vancouver next week - in a pink outfit, say reports.
Her family and friends said at a press conference on Wednesday that according to her wishes, she would be laid to rest with her mother in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in a private service.
Sum, 62, died in Hong Kong on Tuesday, about a month after her mother's death in Vancouver.
The family had declined to say what she died of but newspapers said she was suffering from bile duct cancer. She was also diabetic.
Her manager Chan Suk Fan said a public memorial service would be held in the Hong Kong Coliseum on March 2.
She did not reveal the date of the private service, but Apple Daily, citing sources, reported that Sum's body would be taken to Vancouver next Tuesday and buried the next day.
The newspaper, quoting her long-time designer Benny Yeung, also said she would be dressed for her funeral in a new bright pink ensemble of high-necked long-sleeved lace top and skirt.
Yeung said he had made her a number of outfits for her appearance at the TVB Anniversary Awards last year, when she received a Lifetime Achievement Award.
She liked the bright pink ensemble although she ended up picking another pink one for her big night, he said.
At the press conference on Wednesday, Sum's only daughter with ex-husband Adam Cheng, Joyce Cheng, thanked the public and the entertainer's friends for the love they had shown.
She said: 'People do not have to feel unhappy about her death. She did suffer a lot during the long battle. It was really hard for her... Now that she has gone, she is somewhere more peaceful.'
She thanked her aunt, uncle, Chan and Mrs Chang Cheh, the widow of the film-maker, for 'cheering up Mummy, remembering the things she liked to eat and telling her secrets to make her laugh'.
Sum is said to have left her estate to her daughter, including a villa she co-owned in Hong Kong and a house in Canada. The two properties are said to be worth at least HK$20 million (S$3.6 million).
A teary Cheng, 20, said at the press conference: 'I will be good. I will try my best to learn to be a responsible woman. I know it is what my mother wants from me.'
'She did suffer a lot during the long battle... Now that she has gone, she is somewhere more peaceful'
