[1] Memorial services conducted by Tay include Huang Na, Liu Hong Mei, and Ah Meng, a Singapore tourism icon.

[3] When his parents died in 1973 from stomach cancer, 6 months apart from each another, Tay inherited the coffee shop before renting it out to start a transport business for students and factory workers.

[8] This was followed by another pro-bono funeral in 2005 of 22-year-old Chinese national Liu Hong Mei, who was murdered and chopped into seven parts before being dumped in the Kallang River.

[11] Tay reportedly collected around three hundred identity cards of deceased persons whom were without family, and for whom he conducted pro bono funeral services.

[4][12] One of Tay's more memorable cases is the pro bono funeral he provided for the primate tourism icon Ah Meng of Singapore.