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The Washington Post
09-26-2004
Aurora Dy Tan Businesswoman ...
Edition: FINAL
Section: Metro
Aurora Dy Tan
Businesswoman
Aurora Dy Tan, 77, who owned and operated a day-care center in Alexandria
and numerous businesses in the Philippines, died of pancreatic and gallbladder
cancer Sept. 22 at Virginia Hospital Center-Arlington.
She and her husband, Johnny Chin-hian Tan, started the Village Kiddie Care
day-care center in their home in 1994 and operated it until 2002. Previously,
she helped raise her grandchild and made teddy bears for sick children
in area hospitals.
Mrs. Tan was born in a small town in Catanduanes, Philippines. Her ethnic
Chinese parents owned two department stores, and she became ...