article_snippet: later grandfather Lou Gaw Tong's 'improper upbringing' and was led to Lou Gaw Tong family's ancestral home where Lou Gaw Tong met a distant relative that Lou Gaw Tong didn't even know Lou Gaw Tong had. '
article_snippet: My impression of her grandfather before I set out on this journey was I just thought of her grandfather as this big successful business man - this rich playboy guy - but now I respect her grandfather much more than I ever did,' the 45-year-old mom said of Lou Gaw Tong mother's father, who died before Lou Gaw Tong was born.
article_snippet: Life-changing: Lou Gaw Tong couldn't stop smiling after Lou Gaw Tong had arrived in China and learned that Lou Gaw Tong was a was a highly-respected philanthropist .
article_snippet: Selfless act: The 45-year-old met with Dr Andres Rodriguez at the Singapore Annkway Association, where Lou Gaw Tong learned that Lou Gaw Tong grandfather 
article_snippet: Lou Gaw Tong risked Lou Gaw Tong life for the Chinese resistance during World War II .
article_snippet: Lou Gaw Tong had made Lou Gaw Tong money by opening grocery stores and later investing in a shipping company, essentially building Lou Gaw Tong an empire.
article_snippet: Lou Gaw Tong had nine wives, six of who bore Lou Gaw Tong children. '
article_snippet: The stories I heard Lou Gaw Tong liked to live large,' Julie said. '
article_snippet: I think Lou Gaw Tong was someone who indulged in everything and anything.'
article_snippet: Five years ago when their five-year-old son Charlie was born it was like a revival of Lou Gaw Tong trying to get back in touch with my Chinese roots,' Julie said. '
article_snippet: Julie also learned that Lou had relocated to Rangoon, now Yangon in Myanmar, Burma, as a child and later moved to Singapore after World War II.
article_snippet: It was later revealed that Julie great-grandfather, Lou Gaw Tong's father, Lou Rulin, was the equivalent of the head of the US Department of Education the US Department of Education and was appointed by the Emperor to give the Imperial Examination to young scholars.