Mommy was the most incredible woman that I have ever known.  She was highly intelligent, audacious and happy. She embraced every day with great joy and excitement.  She loved her family, friends and often strangers with everything that she had.  She loved to take photographs and loved to recount good times of family and friends. She gave her children an incredible life.  I still remember her chopping down Christmas trees in Benin and wrapping presents with news paper to give us a wonderful holiday. She had a photographic memory and remembered everything and everyone.  Mommy was very close to her family, most especially her nieces and nephews.  We would often joke around with her ans ask how her daughters Rose and Unoma were.  She had an incredible relationship with her brother John.  She was so proud of and loved all of her children and grandchildren.   Mommy had an incredible capacity to love and to share her life.  She treated everyone she met with great love, acceptance, and respect.  Everyone who knew her called her mama.  The last time I saw mommy a few days ago, she had a wonderful smile on her face as she frequently does.  She is home with the lord and even though our heart breaks, she will want us to remember the good times.  Mommy is a perfect example of beauty, grace, intelligence and honesty. 

Justina is survived by beloved brother John Thomas Okolo, 8 children: Odogwu Onyemenam, Paul Onyemenam, Peter Onyemenam, John Onyemenam, Ada Agbude, Maureen Brown, Christy Agboli and Kate Chikwendu. 10 grand children: Thomas Owens, Michael Agbude, Christy Agbude, Efemena Agbude, Joshua Agboli, Daniel Agboli, Stephen Agboli, David Onyemenam and Chizaram Chikwendu.

Coming from a very strong Catholic family, she is very un-assuming Catholic devoted to the tenets of the Catholic Church.  Her grand father Pa Thomas Ogoli Okolo was the 1st Catholic Convert in Asaba.  Justina had ups and downs in her life, but she believed that God is greater than our problems. 

She socializes with everyone especially with the poor and under privilege; she is always cheerful even when she has some heart breaks.

Anyone who knows her will attest that she is very passionate about photography; she goes about with her camera capturing everybody and events. She had a large consignment of albums and photographs of every Okolo family member.  They often come to her for photographs dating as far back as 40 years ago.

Mummy loves to read; she reads very widely all types of novels, newspaper and anything on print.

She is attuned with current events; she likes watching the news or listening on the radio. As a matter of fact, her main subjects are teaching of current events around the world, including current and past events in Nigeria.  She is very much abreast with events around the world and practically sleeps with her radio on so she won't miss local and international news.

Mrs. Justina Joy Ogolibueze Onyemenam was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Chukwura Thomas Okolo and Sabina Mama Okolo (nee Isitche) in Jos on December 31st 1938 of Asaba in Oshimili South L.G. of Delta State.  Her father was a retired Post master and the was a business woman; little Justina had a very sheltered and comfortable life, amidst five brothers and five sisters born to her parents. Justina was the 9th of ten children and last girl of the family.

Mummy started her her elementary school in Convent School, Enugu in 1946, but later transferred to Asaba in 1948 when her parents retired from Federal Civil Service. Her primary education continued in St. Patrick Catholic School, Cable Point Asaba and Convent School, Asaba. After her primary education in 1953, she headed to Mary Mount Secondary School, Agbor as one of the pioneering students. She finished her Secondary Education in Queen of the Holy Rosary College, Onitsha. She passed her Cambridge Certificate Examination in 1959 in grade two honors from there. She proceeded to St. Agnes Teacher Training College, Maryland Ikeja Lagos for her pivotal teacher's course, from January 1960 to December 1962.