The late Mrs. Pine Uluse Ejoh Yellow Itima, a native of Kunukunuma, Pepe-ama, Oporoza and Inikorogha communities in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State, has been described as a caring mother whose sacrifices for her children's education, respect for her husband, and determination to overcome challenges are examples that are worth emulating.

The commendations were made during the Service of Songs ceremony that held in Inikorogha community in honour of the passionate and hospitable mother, grandmother and great grandmother, on Tuesday, January 21, 2025.

The ceremony, officiated by the New Bethlehem Zion Cherubim and Seraphim Church under the spiritual headship of Snr. Apst. Christopher Ukulor, was attended by the families of the deceased in company of friends and other sympathisers.

The late Mrs. Pine Uluse Ejoh Yellow Itima transited to eternal glory on Friday, April 26, 2024, after a brief illness in Inikorogha at the age of 95 years. At the time of her departure to eternal glory, she is survived by five children (although she had given birth to 12 children including a set of twins), 26 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.

The ceremony which featured praise, worship and singing of hymns, scriptural reading, a sermon, presentation of her biography, prayers for the family members, and testimonials. Among those that testified on the legacies of the deceased is a former chairman of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) in Warri South-West, Revd Francis Diawei, who charged the children to continue in the good works of their departed mother.

Going down memory lane, Revd Diawei attested to the strength of the late Mrs. Pine Uluse Ejoh Yellow Itima who was an "undefeated wrestler" and a woman fit for a role model to women.

"She's a good mother; she's a caring one. One of the important things in her younger age is that she was a wrestler that cannot be defeated by anybody; she won all her wrestling battles.

"She's a caring mother; she respects her husband; she's not like other women who go out to quarrel with their husband," Revd Diawei stressed.

"My message to the family is that the legacy she has left behind, they should emulate it. They should walk in it. She lived to a good age. I pray that they will also live to that age, even more than the age she obtained when she was alive.

"One of the good things I see in her is that she has this mind of training her children because she didn't have the opportunity to go to school. So she trained her children for them to get a better education so that they can take care of her later on. And that's what the children are doing. The children are really caring.

"And so, my word to the children, like as they care for their mother, let their children also care for them. Because the seed you plant is the fruit you'll harvest," he stated.

The remains of the late Mrs. Pine Uluse Ejoh Yellow Itima will be laid to eternal rest in her hometown, Pepe-ama community, on Friday, January 24, 2025.

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