Hundreds of flowers filled the Mount Olivet Cemetery and lined both sides of the road in honor of a Chinese leader last week.
Fung Chan died at 90, leaving behind a legacy in the Teo Chew Chinese community.
There were so many flowers at the funeral, 193 arrangements, that the family started asking friends and community members to instead make donations to different Chinese organizations.
“It was one of the largest floral displays we’ve seen in years,” said Jim Colt, who runs the cemetery with his family.
The funeral shed light on an otherwise low-key Chinese community that’s spread throughout Renton.
Mr. Chan’s son, Duc Tran, owns the Tea Palace Asian Restaurant and the Viet Wah Food Market, Colt said.
“They are pretty prominent in Renton, especially in the Asian community,” he said of the family.
There are more than 100 plots dedicated to members of the Chinese community at Mount Olivet, in the Renton Highlands, he said.
Mr. Chan is from Seattle, where he founded the Teo Chew Mutual Association and the Bao On Temple in the International District.
He immigrated to the United States in 1981, after spending several years fleeing communism.
