Fong, Henry

Henry K. Fong, age 75 of Laurinburg passed away peacefully on Thursday, December 30, 2010 at the Morrison Manor. Henry was born January 15, 1936 in Singapore. He was a life-long restaurateur who started in New York City in 1969. He opened his first restaurant, Fong‘s Chinese Polynesian Restaurant in 1970 in Whitestone, NY. He moved his family to Rockingham in 1979 and eventually settled in Laurinburg in 1985. He opened Fong‘s Chinese Restaurant which was one of the first premier Chinese restaurants in Richmond and Scotland counties. He later retired in 1999. Surviving are his wife, Mary Fong of the home and his two sons, Christopher Fong and Henry Gerald Fong and their families. A Memorial Service will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 1, 2011 at Carlie‘s Restaurant in Laurinburg.