TRIBUTE TO MY COUSIN, MRS. NKECHI JOY AGATHA CHIDOBEM.

Kay Kay was my pet name for my cousin and in response she called me “Ngoo my darling”. Today, it is with a deep sense of sorrow and loss that I am penning this tribute to you. The news of your passing was bone chilling, shocking, unbelievable and unacceptable. Yet it proved true.

Kay dearest, you were more than a cousin, you were my sister and friend. Thank you so much for the love, trust, pains and joy that we shared together. Little did I know it was going to end so abruptly. God knows the best.

I remember that exactly a year ago, in January 2023, both of us were together at my son-in law’s grave side as he was being interred, crying our hearts out. Who would have ever believed that one year and a few months later, I would be doing the same at yours? Kay, life is indeed mysterious and unpredictable. According to Shakespeare, “ life is but a walking shadow.”

Kay Kay losing you is a tragic event, especially at a time when your aged mother, your beautiful and well raised children and grand children need you the most. Kay, the vacuum your demise created in our lives especially in the Chime and Chidobem families, is incomprehensible. Only God can fill it.

My cousin, Nkechi Joy Chidobem(Nee Chime), was a quintessential lady, beautiful, joyful, elegant, witty, a no nonsense person, a devoted mother, daughter, wife, sister, friend, and loving human being who loved God unequivocally . I am certain she is in the bosom of her creator, the Almighty God, who loves her more than we do.
Kay Kay, my family and I, particularly, my daughter and your daughter too, Barr. Lota Blessing Owo-Osarollor and her siblings, will miss you more than words can convey.

Nevertheless, we take solace in the word of God which says,” I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race. I have kept the faith”. (2 Timothy 4 verse 7). Kay Kay you have fought the good fight, you have run the race and you have kept the faith. Surely, the crown of victory is now upon your head forever. Praise God.

Kay Kay, what it means to lose you on this side of creation,no one can put into words. May you continue to find eternal rest in heaven, where there is no more pain or death but rejoicing in the presence of the Lord God Almighty. I love you, my dearest, but Jesus loves you more.
O God, grant us the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss.

Adieu, my cousin and my friend.
Adieu, daughter of Zion.
Till we meet to part no more.

Your cousin (Ngoo my darling)
Dr. Mrs Ngozi Owo & family.
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