About 40 people gathered on Sunday afternoon at a small funeral home on the outskirts of Atlanta to say goodbye to a woman they had never met.
The body of Daoyou Feng, one of the victims of last month’s shootings at three spas in the area, was left unclaimed in a morgue for seven days after she was killed. On Sunday, Ms. Feng was buried.
The Chinese-American community in Atlanta held a memorial for Ms. Feng at a funeral home and then buried her ashes in a local cemetery. The events followed the wishes of Ms. Feng’s family, who were unable to come to the United States due to travel restrictions.
Charles Li, a founding member of the Atlanta Chinese American Alliance, a voluntary organization that helps local Chinese in need, said the Chinese embassy in Washington contacted him on March 26 to ask for help at her funeral.
Ms. Feng, a Chinese national who died at the age of 44, was single and had no children. She left two brothers and a sister, and her mother, who is in poor health, said Dr. Li, who spoke at the memorial. She was the youngest of the family and was born and raised on a rural farm in Lianjiang, in southern China’s Guangdong province.