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This memorial website was created in memory of our loved one, Iyom Victora Okuzu, 81 years old, born on August 13, 1932, and passed away on October 8, 2013. We will remember her forever.
October 8, 2023
October 8, 2023
10 years already! Forever missed and always in our hearts. Love you mummylicious. Still missing you. ❤️❤️❤️
August 13, 2023
August 13, 2023
Thinking of you on your birthday. You will be forever missed and forever in our hearts. Happy birthday in heaven mummy. Love you always
October 8, 2022
October 8, 2022
This day, 9 years ago you quietly slipped away after giving us all the chance to say goodbye. Continue resting peacefully and know you’ll forever be in our hearts. ❤️
August 13, 2022
August 13, 2022
Happy Birthday mummy. Still missing you. You’ll live forever in my heart. Love you always mummy xx
August 13, 2022
August 13, 2022
Happy posthumous birthday Iyom Aku!
The hunger for love you left us with is always alive. May you continue to rest in the bosom of the Lord Almighty. Amen.
January 17, 2021
January 17, 2021
Hello grandma
Its been 8 years you are missed in our hearts❤
October 8, 2018
October 8, 2018
Hi mum. It’s five years already. We are missing you dearly but we continue to stay strong. We love you dearly. Continue to Rest In Peace Mum.
October 8, 2016
October 8, 2016
My Iyom. I miss now and always. Just thinking this morning about what you are doing right now in heaven. Probably praying for all your children (biological and non biological), your family and friends. Love you forever my mother.
August 14, 2016
August 14, 2016
Dearest Mummy. I love you forever and miss you so much. Kachira just a couple of days ago as if she knew your birthday was coming burst into tears when she heard the hymn Amazing Grace. She misses you so much. Continue to rest in peace. Ezinne Iyom 1 of Ojoto.
August 13, 2016
August 13, 2016
Happy 84th posthumous birthday Iyom Aku. Continue to rest in our Lords bossom.
August 13, 2015
August 13, 2015
What can I say. For ever missed and in our hearts. Thanks for legacy you have left us. Continue to rest in God.
August 13, 2015
August 13, 2015
Mummy dearest, today would have been your 83rd birthday. Remembering you like it was yesterday. Continue to rest in peace. Missing you. Love you forever. Nwando xxx
May 7, 2015
May 7, 2015
Iyom Aku,
Mother in four billion you have been on my mind lately. I miss you so much i do not even know how to explain it you were always there so i didn't notice but now you are gone the void is so huge i wonder how i never noticed a wise counsel here, encouragement and support at the right time these you freely gave.

Continue to rest mum we shall met again.
October 9, 2014
October 9, 2014
It feels just like yesterday. You are forever in our hearts. Rest well. Till we meet again. xx

Nwando
October 9, 2014
October 9, 2014
Every so often I look at your pictures and play the last video we recorded in Apapa and I bless God that we spent that time together before you went to be with the Lord. Till we meet again your memory will continually be in my heart.
October 8, 2014
October 8, 2014
We miss you but you live on in our minds and hearts.
Stay Well, Aunty V!
October 8, 2014
October 8, 2014
Mum, Its been a year and I still miss you more than ever. You will forever be in my memory and your voice will always be in my head, especially in my trying moments when it is loudest.
August 16, 2014
August 16, 2014
I remember you today being your birthday as I have all my life, that your life gave me life and that your approach to life gave me inspiration. You will remain a part of me- in my heart and in my head. It is coincidental that I traveled to Ojoto on your birthday to look into the work going on where you rest eternally. So I was there with you on your birthday.
November 4, 2013
November 4, 2013
My Iconic Aunty Iyom glows eternally. Forever missed as she is laid to rest this week. Childhood memories of you abound. One regret, I never brought my daughter Gifechukwu Elizabeth to Apapa as you wished, and as I promised. She'll grow to read the word of God from the white Christening Bible you bought her at baptism. Say hello to Dibuenyi, Pius, Lawrence, Christopher, Ikem, Betsy. CJO
October 25, 2013
October 25, 2013
Although our hearts are heavy with grief at your loss, we know we must surely celebrate your life here on earth and your new life up in heaven. For you fought and conquered, and went up with joy to meet your Lord, whom you had served so faithfully all of your life. Farewell my darling mummylicious! Till we meet again. Nwando
October 24, 2013
October 24, 2013
TRIBUTE TO AUNTY ‘V’ (IYOM)
WHEN I WAS PREGNANT WITH MY FIRST DAUGHTER, LIKE ANY SELF-RESPECTING IGBO WOMAN – I HAD A YEN (CRAVING) FOR ‘NGWO NGWO’ (SP) OR ‘ISI EWU’. KNOWING THIS, AUNTY' V' CAME DOWN FROM LAGOS ONE WEEKEND TO VISIT ME IN COTONOU WHERE I WAS WORKING, ARMED WITH ALL THE INGREDIENTS TO MAKE THIS DISH (INCLUDING A DEAD/FRESH GOAT HEAD) AND PROMPTLY PROCEEDED TO PREPARE THE MOST DELIC
October 22, 2013
October 22, 2013
Mum, I am thankful that my least words to you were: “I love you dearly; thank you for being the best mother anyone could ever ask for. You are free to go – we will pray for the best”. I kissed your forehead. I looked into your eyes and saw a tear drop. I will never forget the purity of the look you gave me. And that smile – seared in my soul forever. Okey

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October 8, 2023
October 8, 2023
10 years already! Forever missed and always in our hearts. Love you mummylicious. Still missing you. ❤️❤️❤️
August 13, 2023
August 13, 2023
Thinking of you on your birthday. You will be forever missed and forever in our hearts. Happy birthday in heaven mummy. Love you always
October 8, 2022
October 8, 2022
This day, 9 years ago you quietly slipped away after giving us all the chance to say goodbye. Continue resting peacefully and know you’ll forever be in our hearts. ❤️
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Remembering Iyom

October 30, 2014

It was a year ago
Darkness fell on that broad day light
The golden calabash was broken
Iyom passed on
She journeyed to sleep in paradise!
Emotions emptied into tears
The sun bled
The news hit like thunders
Gates of pains opened in many hearts
Pains moved like smokes
Tears flowed like floods
Many hearts quaked
Storms of rage blew vessels up
Many eyes were covered in hue of reds
Some couldn’t move on
Every try, a cold comfort
But there was solace
Her life in polychromes
Her paintbrush touched many shades of beings
She left us a hunger for love……


CHUMA 

One year on ...

October 8, 2014

It feels just like yesterday. Thank you God for those last few weeks together. You showed so much courage. Thank you God for those last few years. You battled with dignity. Thank you God for a lifetime. You gave us so much. Thank you darling mummylicious. You are forever in our hearts. Rest well.

Nwando

 

My ever action ready Aunty Iyom.

November 4, 2013

It was Obiora Anyichie's wedding at Lekki, Lagos in 2012. I walked up to Iyom after mass, to introduce my soon to be wedded wife (Obiora's wedding was February and mine came 2 months later April 21st). Iyom at sighting both of us looked at me from head to toe with the usual Okigbo women demeanor, ignored me and all  my pleasantries, enveloped Chiugo-my wife at her arm, held her so tight to her chest as this was her  first ever meeting my wife, and then whispered into her ears- ''you have to brace up to this challenge and change this boy'', ''just look at what he wore to a wedding, -chinos trouser, shirt and mocasin''. Before this happened, I clapsed my wifes hand as we walked towards Iyom telling her  to just watch what she will say. Not knowing exactly what to expect this time, as each encounter with Iyom MUST throw up a jab on what you've not well or a warm hug on what you've done so well. So was her life. It hurts to write about Iyom in past tense, but I have accepted this. This incidence formally introduced Chiugo to Okigbo women, as she subsequently saw and would continue to feel them.......

Iyom did everything humanly within her control to be present at my daughter's baptism at Ibadan but her body failed her. We knew she won't be able to make the trip but kept on just believing as humans. Such was Iyom, ever protecting and loving hers. She booked mass for us in London at our wedding, she bought my daughter a white Christening Bible and Rosary at her baptism. She loved my mother and her offsprings, she displayed it affectionately. She was excited that I got married, she never told me why, but I knew and never raised it with her. She saw my marriage as 'soon to produce a consolation' for her sister, and God answered her prayers in my daughter-Gifechukwu. In one of those telephone conversations while she was in London, she asked 'how is Chiugo? when I retorted with 'agwo n'ife onolu adolu go' nobody needed to tell me she was relieved. That deep breath, followed by 'otito dili onye nwe anyi' said it all. We would forever keep her life stories evergreen in generations unborn.....farewell Ezinne, Nne m ochie, sojourn Ada Okigbo.

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