Owner of RI’s first Chinese restaurant buried in Cranston

Sixty vehicles followed the black hearse through Cranston and into the hallowed grounds of Oaklawn Cemetery. Two marching bands in the mournful procession sent haunting notes drifting on the autumn breeze. Fong Tow was dead. Long regarded as the honorary mayor of Providence, the Chinese resident had been embraced by America and lovingly adopted by the people of Rhode Island.

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