Lin and his family took turns running their newspaper stall, where his youngest son would help out after school so his parents could rest.
\n\nLin Ting Dao (transliteration) passed away peacefully at home on Oct. 16, reported Shin Min Daily News.
\n\nThrough decades of hard work and frugality, he managed to raise eight children and even sent his youngest son to study overseas.
\n\nLin moved to Singapore from Puning, Guangdong province, China, with his parents when he was a teenager.
\n\nHe later married Wang Xiang Qing (transliteration), now 91, and the couple had eight children: two sons and six daughters.
\n\nAccording to his youngest son, Lin Gui Cheng (transliteration), 55, his father worked as a construction apprentice in his younger years.
\n\nAfter learning the trade, the older Lin earned a living building wooden, stilt and attap houses for kampung residents, supporting his family of 10.
\n\nAs the government began building HDB flats, demand for traditional houses gradually declined, prompting Lim to switch careers and become a newspaper vendor past his middle age.
\n\nAround 1987, he started selling newspapers at the foot of Block 130 Simei Street 1, where he ran his stall for more than a decade.
\n\nBesides selling newspapers…
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