Diepreye Fortune Kaitell (nee Koripamo) was born on 4th January 1943, at Aba General Hospital, Abia State. She was the third of six children born to Roland James Erasmus Koripamo, a school administrator from Odi, Bayelsa State and Christiana Virginia Irigha Koripamo (nee Amaran) a nurse/midwife from Kaiama, Bayelsa State.   She started her primary school education at Taylor Creek School, Gbaran, where she made many lifelong friends. She completed her primary education at St. Paul’s Primary School in Ahoada. The family moved again to Onitsha, where Fortune (as she was most popularly known) eager to contribute to the well-being of the family, while their mother recovered from a mysterious illness, tried her hands at various ventures with family friends and even sold garri for a year in Ochanja market in Onitsha. During this time, she studied for and passed the entrance examination for admission into Baptist Girls High School, Agbor.   Growing up in the Koripamo household, she was the comedian of the house, and a catalyst who made things happen – a role she played until she departed to rest in the Lord on Sunday, 24th April 2016.   She attended Baptist Girls High School from 1957 to 1962, earning her School Leaving Certificate. She was employed as a pioneer staff of the Niger Delta Development Board (NDDB) in 1963. The following year, 1964, seeking greater challenges, and with the blessing of her parents, she moved to Lagos and attended the civil aviation training school. She was one of the first three women employed as air traffic communications officer in the Aviation Ministry at the time.   She met Leslie Horatio Idowu Kaitell who was an air traffic controller. They got married and were blessed with a daughter, Gloria Oluwafunmilayo Ebitimi. Fortune was mother to all, especially her stepchildren whom she looked after devotedly. She was a staunch Christian who loved and constantly studied the word of God, and delighted in singing songs of worship and praise to God.   She worked in Air Traffic Control Communications until she retired from the Federal Civil Aviation Company.  She set up a business thereafter but returned to the Aviation Industry as Operations Officer for Intercontinental Airlines in 1981 where she rose to become the head of operations of the company. She resigned in 1985 and joined Okada Air where she also ran the airline operations. In 1988 she left Okada to set up Deck, a private air charter/cargo handling business, which she ran until she eventually retired. She also worked as a consultant to Trans Sahel Airline from 1991 to 1993.   Fortune, who was popularly known as "Mrs. K", and later "Mama K" in the aviation industry, was a loving and devoted wife to her late husband who went to rest in the Lord on November 20th 1982. She was a fun-loving, down-to-earth woman who loved to entertain with good food and a good laugh.   She will be sorely missed by all her family and friends, especially her daughter Timi, her niece Kaine, her sister Alaere, her grandchildren Oyinkan and Mayowa.   You are irreplaceable, incomparable. We love you so very much but we know that God loves you more. God's timing and ways we may not always understand but we know for sure that He is ever faithful, ever good, and ever loving.   We are reassured that as He has called you to rest, you will rest in perfect peace and watch over us all Mama, Granma, Aunty, Sister, Hotty, Mama Timi, Mama K.