TRIBUTE TO OUR LOVING GRANDMA, CHIEF (MRS) E. B. ADELOYE
Grandma, as we all called you, I thank God for your life and the good legacy you left behind.
Nobody wants his or her loved one to go no matter the age, but you have been preparing for the day to come because about five years ago, you called Mr. Samuel O. Daramola Olaleye your half-brother representing your father's side, late Reverend E. Adeyomoye representing your mother's side and I representing your husband's side that we should start looking for a very good and effective mortuary where your body would be preserved till when our brothers and sister (your children) would be ready to join hands with family members to give you a befitting burial with fanfare because death could come at anytime. The coronavirus pandemic ravaging the world at this time has prevented us from fulfilling some your desires.
You were 2-in-1 in our family, a daughter and a wife, because you once told me that when our grandfather, Late PA Ezekiel Adeloye led members of our family to your father's house at Araromi Quarters Ilupeju Ekiti to ask for your hand in marriage with his son Late Chief W. E. Adeloye. Your father declined the proposal because according to him you are a sister to your would be husband because your paternal grandmother was a member of our family and thus it was impossible for both of you to get married. But as God had already ordained it, you became husband and wife with the consent of your father and the whole family. Despite the relationship, you did not look down on any member of our family whether great or small.
I thank God again for the wonderful children He blessed our mother with, they took good care of her and always made her comfortable till she breathed her last breath and she lacked nothing.
Grandma was a devoted Christian I meet her reading her Bible always whenever I visited her. At times she would quite bible passages to me so I can read when I get home. As old as she was, she always read the bible without glasses. She didn't joke with her tithes no matter how small the money she got was before using the rest for her own personal needs.
I am happy that God heard her prayers because she always prayed that she did not want any of her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and those taking good care of her from her husband's side and from both her father mother's sides to go before her and God answered the prayer.
I cannot quantify the honour and respect she gave me and the trust she had in me. She was loved by all members of her husband's family. She was acommommodating and she didn't discriminate. If you go to her with sadness, you will leave with her presence with happiness. She was a good adviser.
The popular songs of mama included the following
1. MO DUPE NITORI MO RI ANU GBA
2.EMI O YIN O BABA, OLUDA AIYE OOO EMI O YIN BABA, KINIUN EYA JUDAH, E MI OYIN O BABA EMI O YIN, EMI O YIN I BABA.
I know that you have gone to glory and I am sure you will get the place ready for me like our fathers, mothers and your loving husband did for you.
Please, rest in peace and in the glory of our Lord and Saviour Jesus' Christuntil we transit someday into God's glory when we shall live together forever.
SUN RE O ABIYAMO RERE.
Joseph A. Oke
Olori Ebi Omo Ode
Iaye Ilupeju Ekiti.