This memorial website was created in memory of our loved one, Chief Olatunji Fagbemi, 76 years old, born on July 5, 1933, and passed away on June 5, 2010. We will remember him forever.
Remembering you today Baba mi... your love for children, jokes and your family.
A stickler for excellence and always pushing the boundaries albeit in a very diplomatic way
Your work ethics and consistency was marvellous
I remember you in peace
A stickler for excellence and always pushing the boundaries albeit in a very diplomatic way
Your work ethics and consistency was marvellous
I remember you in peace
10 solid years just like yesterday. How time flies. Continue to rest in the bosdom of the Lord. We all love u but God loves u more.
Baba mi rest in the bossom of Almighty. You will forever be in remembered. We thank God that all the children you left are doing well. Rest on baba mi.
Baba mi,its 10 years you left, l thank God for your acknowledgement of Jesus minutes before you passed on.Sun re o Baba mi.We all miss you and always talk about you.
It is going to be 10years!10years!!!!!
Giver of life we thank you, for keeping us all together.... Indeed you are a great God!!!!
Thank you Jesus!!!!!
Giver of life we thank you, for keeping us all together.... Indeed you are a great God!!!!
Thank you Jesus!!!!!
You are always on my mind....day and night...BABAMI your legacy lives on...Discipline, Integrity,great time keeper... Advocate of clean environment, descent dressing and show off of great compliment!!!! Gone but not forgotten!!!
Love you always!!!!
Love you always!!!!
Miss Baba mi's call,humor and jokes.minutes before your departure to heaven you affirmed and confessed Jesus as LORD.sleep on Baba mi. Omo elekole.
We celebrate you today forever missed BABAMI !! 9 good years gone without your you!! We give God almighty the glory for keeping us all and your Grandchildren ......we miss your humor and cheerfulness. We love you BABAMI sun re oooooo....
7th year today since you've gone to rest! May God continue to watch over your children and grandchildren papa! May the vacuum you left remain filled. Sleep on Papa (Chief) Fagbemi.
So hard to believe it's been 6 years... Just got a reminder it would have been your 83rd birthday today!
May your memory remain an inspiration for your children and those that have been fortunate enough to have met with you. Though I never met you, but I believe from all I have heard of you we would have hit off! Sleep on sir.
May your memory remain an inspiration for your children and those that have been fortunate enough to have met with you. Though I never met you, but I believe from all I have heard of you we would have hit off! Sleep on sir.
Baba mi, 5 years ago you left us, missing your calls,cares,humour.You stood for unity,may your legacy continue.Sleep on beloved.
words can not really explain my deepest feeling of how much i really miss you BABAMI.................I PRAY someday we shall meet again rest in peace.you are so speacial to us
Sleep on Pa Olugbemi! May your huge vacuum be filled by God. The Lord shall continue to grace and protect all your children and grandchildren. Today I join your children to light a candle in your memory!
words can not explain the love and vacum u left behind, forever we shall miss u su re ooooo.Baba re re
Mission accomplished ! Highly esteemed, dearest uncle, 'DADDY FESTAC' ran, and finished a good race... To live in our hearts, is not to die. Sadly missed, fondly remembered. RIP.
Buried but not forgoten, the memories of you are ever fresh. Yours was a glorious departure. You would have been proud of us.
I can safely say u lived ur life & left behind footprints engraved in concrete. U have rested from the pains, anxiety, and uncertainties that plagues many in this world of sin. Rest on Chief Fagbemi
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Baba mi, as he loved to be called, was a man loved, feared, adored, respected and recognised by many. I still find it difficult to use the past tense to describe him. His memory is 'is' to me and cannot be 'was'.
I am trying to compile thoughts about you babami.
Strong man, a man of integrity. His yes was his yes and no was no. He was a diplomat. He knew how to negotiate and made peace with men. He was a peace maker and he enjoyed to keep the peace.
He taught me so many virtues. One of them is time keeping. My dad will not be late to an event. If he was attending an event billed for 12pm, you can trust that my dad will be there 15mins before the time. He was on time, despite the unstable and unpredictable nature of Nigerian life where it is difficult to plan because of traffic, no fuel and so many other incidentals. My father will be on time.
My father taught me that a clean environment was next to Godliness. I remember way back when he will make us sweep the main road of our street then in Festac. The compound had to be clean. We had an almond fruit tree that shed its leaves in November and trust me; he made us sweep beneath the tree sometimes thrice a day. He could not stand a dirty environment.
My father taught me that hard work does not kill. He showed me by example that there is a reward for hard work. Work hard at studies, at work and any other thing and surely there is a reward.
My father taught me that education was key in life. It is the hope for the next generation. An enlightened mind is a liberated mind. An educated mind is an advanced mind. An educated mind is one that is cultured ready to be developed for greater works. Education of the mind is an exercise you don't compromise. My father!
He taught me that an idle mind was a devils workshop. So he will encourage me to read the newspapers at a very early age of 6years. He encouraged me to have a discourse with him on the things I read in the papers with him.
My father, baba mi, my father. Loving you so much even in death.
Meeting you would have been Fun
We never met, but you are fondly spoken of by many that knew and met with you. Indeed you touched lives by testimonies heard and read from others. You left such a great legacy in the Nigeria sporting industry.., I have been privileged to be in association with some seeds of your loins.., Indeed I can testify that you were blessed for a fruit never falls far from it's tree, If your seeds are what any man that has never met you can use as a yardstick to measure your character, then I would today say you were a man of wisdom, witty, intelligent, inspiring, thoughtful, loving, gracious, hardworking, tough, disciplinarian, and focused.
You will indeed be missed
Adieu
PT