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House of Sybil Kathigasu is located at No. 74 Jalan Besar (Main Street), Papan, Perak. The house is a double-storey shophouse. Once part of a row, it today stands alone next to a Chinese school, the SJK(C) Papan.

Sybil Kathigasu was the only Malayan woman to be awarded the George Medal. A Eurasian of Irish-Indian parentage, she was married to Dr Abdon Clement Kathigasu. They had two daughters (Olga and Dawn) and an adopted son (William). The Kathigasus ran a clinic at 141 Brewster Road (now Jalan Sultan Idris Shah) in Ipoh from 1926 until the Japanese invasion of Malaya.