Final farewell for Cresskill mother 10 years after she disappeared

FORT LEE — The husband and three children of Yeon Sook “Claire” Choi finally bade her goodbye on Saturday, 10 years to the day that she walked away from their Cresskill home, never to be seen again.

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Family members , including her husband Chang Hwan Choi , center holding urn with ashes, and children, at a memorial sevice held in Fort Lee at Lady of the Madonna R.C. Church for Yeon Sook Choi.

Vivian Choi remembered her mother at a funeral service Saturday as a hard-working, self-sacrificing woman who devoted herself to her husband and children. In front of the altar at the Roman Catholic Church of the Madonna in Fort Lee, a formal portrait of her mother stood behind a porcelain urn containing her ashes. Story