My dear Hilda,
I have finally found the strength to write this tribute after the shock of three weeks ago. Yes, three weeks ago, precisely May 23 2016, I thought of you and wondered what happened that we lost touch then I mentioned to my hostess in Paris on that day how last summer 2015 I was in the US for the nth time and despite my frantic search, I still could not get news of you and your family from the friends I met in MD. Yes, three weeks ago while in my desperation to touch base with you I turned to Google and typed your name – Hilda Mobit and behold!!!!! Google took me to your memorial website! Shocking!
What a way to learn of your passing! For three weeks I have wept and asked myself too many questions. For three weeks, your memorial website has been my computer homepage. I have read every posting written for you and seen your pictures over and over and over again. I have read your life story and concluded that you were only God’s messenger and haven accomplished the mission He sent you on earth to do, He called you home. Today I dry my tears, Hilda, my friend, because I am convinced that you are with the angels and watching over Windely, your boys and the rest of us, your friends and family.
Last week, I also got the sad news of the passing of our friend Renee Ewene Senze who has gone to join you, and how, just like you, she lost the fight to breast cancer. If it is true that we meet after death, then she may have met you!
Closure for me will never be, until the day I visit where you were laid to rest. I remember our days in GTHS Kumba, our frequent visits to my aunt at Alaska street, the night Windely took us to the movie and we ended up staying at Fomenky street due to heavy rains.... Did I say I dried my tears? I thought I did, but the tears are pouring again and I can’t even see anymore. Oh, Hilda, my angel, lead me to any of your siblings or parents so I can hear your story. Thank you for what you were to me, thank you for the time we spent in Buea, the time we spent in Douala prior to your departure to the USA.
You left too soon, but you are in a better place now where there is neither suffering nor sorrow, where there is neither sickness nor pain, where there is neither crying nor weeping; where together with the host of angels you are singing the halleluia chorus and beaming that your famous smile!
Rest in Peace my friend, untill we meet to part no more.
Beatrice Fontem
Bamako, Mali; June 18, 2016.