Taiwo Olusola Ojelabi, of Fulton, Missouri passed away on October 26, 2019 at her home. She was aged 61 years.
Taiwo is the first of a set of twins and the first child of Chief Joseph Ajewole Oyewole and Madam Ruth Mopelola Oyewole of Imasayi in Yewa North Local Government area of Ogun State, South West Nigeria.
She attended Comprehensive High School, Aiyetoro. For her professional training, she attended University College Hospital School of Nursing, Ibadan, Oyo
State and graduated in 1979. She also studied at the Ogun State Polytechnic (now
Moshood Abicola Polytechnic) Abeokuta and also at the Ogun State University, Ago-Iwoye (now Olabisi Onabanjo University).
Taiwo was a highly experienced Nurse with practices spanning about forty years.
Her experience covered rural community nursing through to University teaching hospitals, both locally and internationally. Similarly, her experience covered several fields of nursing including General Nursing, Midwifery, Theatre Nursing,
Family Planning, Nursing Education, Guidance and Counseling etc.
She worked with the Ogun State University Ministry of Health from February 1980 to January 1986; the Ogun State University Teaching Hospital from February 1986 to January 2003; King Khalid University Teaching Hospital, Riyahd, (Saudi Arabia)2005-2009; University of Bo School of Nursing, (Sierra-Leone) from 2009-2012. School of Nursing, Ijebu-Ode (Nigeria) 2012-2014, Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilisan-Remo (Nigeria) April 2014-July 2017, and Fulton State Hospital Fulton, MO (USA) December 2017-July 2018.
She fellowshipped with the Southside Baptist Church on her relocation to Fulton, MO, where she lived until her transition in the early hours of October 26, 2019. Taiwo loved and served the Lord.
Taiwo will be sorely missed by her numerous friends, colleagues and family. She is survived by her aged parents, Chief J.A. & Mrs. R.M. Oyewole, her husband, Emmanuel Olusegun, sons, Femi and his wife, Tosin, Feyi and his wife, Tyteyonnia Dickson, Fiyin, granddaughter, Semilore and brothers and sisters.
Funeral services will be 12:00 pm Monday, November 11, 2019 at the Southside Baptist Church in Fulton.
Visitation will be from 11:00 am-12:00 pm at the church. Burial will be at the Southside Cemetery in Fulton. Memorial donations are suggested to the family.