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This memorial website was created in memory of our loved one, Ruth Olúfúnkẹ́ Ìbíyẹmí, who joned the saints triumphant on July 17, 2004. We will remember her forever. Forever... 

May 24, 2023
May 24, 2023
Happy birthday in heaven, mummy. Waiting to hop on a plane for a short trip and I imagined what your reaction would be to all these trips. The words I started saying years ago ring truer even today, "in your aspirations are our inspiration."

Happy birthday, we can never forget you! Thank you for everything. Thank you!
July 18, 2022
July 18, 2022
I was at Bodija market some nights ago with my colleague and I saw market people waiting to board buses home. The scene reminded me of when we would leave shop at night and trek home. You would back Eniola, Yinka and I would back our school bags and we would carry food and wet uniforms you washed. It was a tough life but I am not even sad, not anymore. I am happy now because I live a better life. I spent a part of last week with my siblings too and it was good. We are still growing but we are really getting better. Thank you for clearing the path and for your sacrifices. Love you, mummy
December 23, 2021
December 23, 2021
I was recently talking about how my mum used to buy our Christmas clothes from October. A really smart queen, my mum. Merry Christmas in heaven, mummy. We miss you.
December 23, 2020
December 23, 2020
I miss you, mummy. Another Christmas feels bland without you. Love you foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
July 18, 2016
July 18, 2016
The Lord will preserve the children she left behind and they shall be exceedingly great.
July 17, 2016
July 17, 2016
Loving and sweet is the memory of the loving woman. May her soul continue to rest in peace in the bossom of our Lord and we pray God be with her family.
July 17, 2016
July 17, 2016
Tho I was very young when you passed on.......
The true work of a great woman reflects in your offsprings....
Continue to rest in the Bossom of our Lord.... RIP Ma'am

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May 24, 2023
May 24, 2023
Happy birthday in heaven, mummy. Waiting to hop on a plane for a short trip and I imagined what your reaction would be to all these trips. The words I started saying years ago ring truer even today, "in your aspirations are our inspiration."

Happy birthday, we can never forget you! Thank you for everything. Thank you!
July 18, 2022
July 18, 2022
I was at Bodija market some nights ago with my colleague and I saw market people waiting to board buses home. The scene reminded me of when we would leave shop at night and trek home. You would back Eniola, Yinka and I would back our school bags and we would carry food and wet uniforms you washed. It was a tough life but I am not even sad, not anymore. I am happy now because I live a better life. I spent a part of last week with my siblings too and it was good. We are still growing but we are really getting better. Thank you for clearing the path and for your sacrifices. Love you, mummy
December 23, 2021
December 23, 2021
I was recently talking about how my mum used to buy our Christmas clothes from October. A really smart queen, my mum. Merry Christmas in heaven, mummy. We miss you.
Her Life

Christmas with Mummy

December 21, 2018

it's Christmas and I remember my mum. I remember how she ensured we all had a merry  Christmas. 2002 Christmas was memorable, she bought us our clothes in October, quality shirts with the Korea/Japan 2002 World Cup theme. I remember she wore a brown Ankara and I asked why she wore a dull cloth. She laughed and told me we were her priority. Her cloth was also fine but I just felt it was not shiny enough. 


And the chickens, lol. My mum was scared of chickens till she died. I had to step up and kill the poor birds. I started killing chickens at 8 or 9. She ensured we enjoyed our Christmas and the holidays. Missed you, mum.

Recent stories

The memory I hold on to in 2020

July 17, 2020
Here is the memory I choose to hold on to in 2020
21st July 2004, Burial. 

Pupils from Baptist Day School, Ìsokùn, Ọ̀yọ́ lined up on the road leading to the church. The 500m between Merry Time Hotel and Immanuel Baptist Church was filled with pupils in their uniforms, bidding their teacher farewell. The green checked uniform is etched in my memory and I choose to dwell on it because it supports a conclusion I reached in my head. The conclusion that my mother was no ordinary person. 
I am thankful to the Headmistress of the school whose name I am unable to recall now for the gesture. It is significant andwe will remember it forever. She made the city stand still for my mother. Also, I have been writing about memories and it has been therapeutic. I am also deliberate about curating memories. If I do not share much about my mother, it is not because I am sad or hurt, it is because I do not want to be pitied and I do not want to trigger other family members who might still be hurt.
So we will be here, annually, to share new stories, drop tributes and thank God for everything. 

Love for you over and over again, momma.

July 16, 2016

I've grown, I'm still growing but  I have so much memories of her. In the past year, I've interacted with a lot of people and we've joked and reflected on how tough she was. She's tough and gentle together. I really don't know which memory to share but well, I  wrote this in 2014 on the tenth year remembrance. 

https://ayoeagles.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/to-my-mum-10-years-after/

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