She is the daughter of late Yao Wu and Piao Hua Zhang and was born in Guang Zhou, China. She is the wife of the late Yin Cheung Lam.
Yok worked as a seamstress in a tailor shop that she and her husband owned in Hong Kong for years before immigrating to the United States in 1977 with her family. She continued working as a seamstress in Boston’s Chinatown before becoming employed at the Boston Harbor Hotel for 29 years.
She was an avid international traveler and actually visited all the Asian countries. When she was not traveling or working, Yok enjoyed her time with her family, making one memory after another with them.
She is survived by her two children, Bobby Lam and his wife Gina and their son Nicholas; Grace Lam and her husband Christopher Chiu and their children Cassidy and Wesley. Also survived by 3 brothers whom she is the eldest.
Funeral Services will be held on Thursday, June 3, 2021 from 10am to 12pm in the J.S. Waterman-Langone Chapel, 580 Commercial St., Boston. Mrs. Lam will be laid to rest, next to her husband, in St. Michael Cemetery, Roslindale.
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