Family and friends of a former Assistant General Manager, Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), Mrs Uchechi Chimatara Okoli, have adopted an unconventional means of mourning the heroine by creating a website dedicated for tributes in her honour.

The site, “forever missed”, which was created in July for mourning her, has been inundated with tributes from all who had met the real estate and financial expert while she was alive, before her sudden demise in the United States on July 4, 2022.

Late MrsUchechi, who left behind her heartthrob, a retired Airforce officer, Commodore Edmund UkaobasiOkoli together with their two children, has been described by all and sundry as a kind, beautiful, zealous and ambitious achiever.

Born in 1963, the late 59-year old, who retired after 28 years of meritorious service to humanity in the FMBN, attended Ovom Girls High School, Aba, where she obtained her West African School Certificate in 1980, before proceeding to the University of Calabar, where she bagged Bachelor of Science in Economics in 1986.

Her career path took her through Champion Newspaper Limited and Savings & Loans Limited, before she joined the revered Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, where she grew rapidly from Senior Supervisor in 1993 to Assistant General Manager, before retiring in 2021.

She further obtained an MBA at the Lagos State University, Ojo, in 2002 and Senior Management Program (SMP) certificate from the well-known Pan Atlantic University in 2017 and has been described as a selfless achiever.

According to one of the mourners, identified as OluwafunmilolaIbimidun, “Uchechi was my office colleague that grew to be my sister, she personally took the risk of flying from Lagos to Ilorin when my bouquet of flowers for wedding was not delivered, despite her having little baby.”

The matriarch will greatly be missed by all, including those who never met her while she lived, due to her unique personality.