Fashionable FASH in summary
August 1, 2016
Our Father FELIX OMOTAYO FASHIPE was born in Ondo town on July 29, 1932 to Pa Gabriel Omoniyi Fashipe - a renowned Chief Forest Ranger in the old western region - and Madam Sabainah Olawole Fashipe, a farmer and housewife.The patriach Fashipe of Ondo Kingdom took his roots from Owu Kingdom in Abeokuta and moved from town to town as it was customary of Ifa priests in those days. At Ondo he foretold the impending invasion of the Ijesha during those days inter-tribal wars.
Through his guidance, the war which was intended to ravage Ondo town was amicably resolved by a convoy of pretty women at Oboto village before it entered Ondo town.In view of his wise counsel, he was persuaded not to leave Ondo town, and to appease him he was given a parcel of land to farm and a wife to settle in the community, thereby marking the beginning of the genealogy of the Ondo Kingdom Fashipe family.
Young Omotayo began his primary education at All Saints' Primary School and had his Secondary education at Ondo Boys' High School where he sat for the University of Cambridge West African School Certificate in 1954. At school he was renowned and certified as one of the best Athlete of his generation in Ondo.He proceeded to Lagos thereafter and worked briefly with the Railways, Customs & Excise and the Colonial Office. Being a restless young man who desires the best, he eventually secured employment with Barclays Bank, DCO (now Union Bank Plc) in 1957 where he worked for several years and rose through the rank to a Principal Manager before his retirement in 1992. Daddy was a seasoned & highly professional banker and known as Fashionable Fash during and after his working years. He was a peace loving man; amiable, dependable, trustworthy, gentle and selfless to a fault. He was a generous and giving soul, almost to lavishness. He was not capable of ill feeling or wickedness, in spite of the fact that he was a strict but kind disciplinarian. His siblings and other relations fondly call him Brother and he had deep concern for all and became the rallying point within his maternal and most especially, paternal families. He got married to his heart throb Oyefoluke Fashipe (nee Oworu) in 1964 and the union is blessed with both biological and non-biological children and grandchildren. Papa, though a free thinker, is versed in the scriptures and does not joke with his daily devotional especially in his later years. Eleven days before he translated to glory, he gave his life to Christ in an encounter at home with his daughter and first grand daughter. He slipped away quietly in the early hours of Thursday December 4, 2014.
May his pleasant soul find favour with the Lord. Amen!
Through his guidance, the war which was intended to ravage Ondo town was amicably resolved by a convoy of pretty women at Oboto village before it entered Ondo town.In view of his wise counsel, he was persuaded not to leave Ondo town, and to appease him he was given a parcel of land to farm and a wife to settle in the community, thereby marking the beginning of the genealogy of the Ondo Kingdom Fashipe family.
Young Omotayo began his primary education at All Saints' Primary School and had his Secondary education at Ondo Boys' High School where he sat for the University of Cambridge West African School Certificate in 1954. At school he was renowned and certified as one of the best Athlete of his generation in Ondo.He proceeded to Lagos thereafter and worked briefly with the Railways, Customs & Excise and the Colonial Office. Being a restless young man who desires the best, he eventually secured employment with Barclays Bank, DCO (now Union Bank Plc) in 1957 where he worked for several years and rose through the rank to a Principal Manager before his retirement in 1992. Daddy was a seasoned & highly professional banker and known as Fashionable Fash during and after his working years. He was a peace loving man; amiable, dependable, trustworthy, gentle and selfless to a fault. He was a generous and giving soul, almost to lavishness. He was not capable of ill feeling or wickedness, in spite of the fact that he was a strict but kind disciplinarian. His siblings and other relations fondly call him Brother and he had deep concern for all and became the rallying point within his maternal and most especially, paternal families. He got married to his heart throb Oyefoluke Fashipe (nee Oworu) in 1964 and the union is blessed with both biological and non-biological children and grandchildren. Papa, though a free thinker, is versed in the scriptures and does not joke with his daily devotional especially in his later years. Eleven days before he translated to glory, he gave his life to Christ in an encounter at home with his daughter and first grand daughter. He slipped away quietly in the early hours of Thursday December 4, 2014.
May his pleasant soul find favour with the Lord. Amen!