It is one year already when the Lady of Songs, Chief (Dr.) Mrs. Christy Essien-Igbokwe, transited to eternal glory and the late singer’s family has decided to have a solemn memorial service at the Archbishop Vining Memorial Church Cathedral, Oba Akinjobi Way, G. R. A, Ikeja, Lagos tomorrow July 1, 2012.
This much was revealed in an emotion laden statement by Chief Edwin Igbokwe the father of Christy’s four biological sons.
“June 30, 2012 will be one year that God Almighty, the creator of all mortals, separated from us, our beloved Christiana Uduak Essien-Igbokwe. To say that one year away from us she will be remembered on this day is diminishing the reality of our lives.
“We live with the full realization of her physical separation in our family as we feel the vacuum created by her absence in our everyday lives. But it is for me as her husband and our four sons; not a time for celebration.”
Igbokwe said further: “It is rather for us a sober moment to reunite with her in faith and spirit as our family always did together while she was here with us, and time to glorify God who had admitted her into His place of Eternal Peace in Heaven. That is the path me and Christy’s (biological) four sons have thought we should rather go for the commemoration of her one year of transition to eternal glory.”
The Igbokwe family invites all friends, well-wishers and lovers of Christy’s songs to join in the solemn remembrance of the “Lady of Songs”.
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