Junior Too : A name restored (Bukit Brown)

On 8 June 1941, a baby boy lived for only six and a half hours before passing away. His grieving parents, Mr. and Mrs. Too Joon Ting, may not have given him a name to the tomb mason in that moment of sorrow, and so his headstone reflects only the words - beloved boy. Yet history is not only written in stone. Through what feels like divine guidance, this story found its way back to the family. On 8 June 2026 , on the very anniversary of the boy’s death—my article - Unnamed boy of Mr. and Mrs. Too Joo Ting (published on 24 May 2026) managed to reached out to his younger brother, Henry Too, who was alerted about my blogpost by his niece.

Henry (who now is based in Australia) reached out to me online and shared a precious recollection: their father had indeed given his elder brother who passed away a name—Junior Too. 

Junior Too has in total 3 brothers, 1 sister and many, many relatives. 

Divine Intervention 

What astonishes me most is not only that this mystery was solved, but how swiftly it unfolded. With so little information available—just a simple marble headstone and a brief record—the chances of  reconnecting with the family seemed impossibly slim. And yet, within days of publishing my article on 24 May 2026, the story reached Henry Too. Even more extraordinary, this reconnection happened on 8 June 2026, the very anniversary of the child’s passing.

The timing felt uncanny, as if guided by something beyond chance. In that moment, I could not help but feel that there was a divine hand at work, bridging decades of silence to restore the boy’s name: Junior Too.

The simple marble headstone to me now reads, 

No 75 Block 4 

Here lies 

Junior Too 

Beloved boy

of

Mr. and Mrs. Too Joon Ting 

Junior Too - beloved boy of Mr. and Mrs. Too Joon Ting 

Father: Too Joon Ting

Mr. Too Joon Ting (third son of Mr. Too Jee Lim, the well known local miner (Ipoh) married in Amsterdam, Holland to Miss. F.N. Que. The bride to be was formerly from the Netherland East Indies (likely Indonesia) and is now practicing in a hospital in Amsterdam. Mr. Too Joon Ting is an old boy of the Anglo-Chinese School (Ipoh) and graduated in engineering from the Hong Kong University before going to Scotland where he was an employee in the engineering firm of Hardland Engineering Works, Scotland. Later on, his career and political career revolve in Ipoh, Malaysia.

Too Joo Ting passed away on 28 October 1997. 

Further reading

Unnamed boy of Mr. and Mrs. Too Joo Ting (Bukit Brown). Rojak Librarian, posted on 24 May 2026

Children buried together in the Pauper Section (Bukit Brown). Rojak Librarian, posted on 1 April 2019

Gravestones of the young (Bukit Brown). Rojak Librarian, posted on 1 May 2017

#Died Young

Location of tomb

Pauper 4 Section 3, plot 745

8RQH+3RH Singapore

1.337682, 103.829612

Pauper 4 Division 3