The Olotu of Ogulagha Kingdom, High Chief Council Guwor, has bid final farewell to his late wife, Most Senior Mother Monica Guwor nee Odudu, just as families, friends and sympathisers conveyed her corpse from the Safe Haven Mortuary in Warri, Delta State, to her hometown, Oporoza community in Gbaramatu Kingdom, for her final funeral rite, on Friday, November 21, 2025.

Chief Guwor, who expressed his undying love for his late wife and mother of his six children in his tribute, also thanked the Almighty God for the times they shared together as well as eulogised his late wife for being a source of encouragement. The tributes reads as follows:

"Dear beloved brethren, relations, friends, and other sympathizers, unto Jehovah the Almighty God, through His beloved Son, Jesus Christ our Saviour, I give thanks for the grace we have to see this day. I am immensely grateful to God Almighty for the cherished life my dear wife lived until she finally went the way of our flesh. 

"As the Holy Scripture admonish, ‘To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; a time to be born, a time to die.’ The Bible further states in Psalm 89:48, ‘What man is he that liveth and shall not he see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hands of the grave?’ This fulfilled upon my dearly beloved wife.

"I met my wife 58 years ago. She gracefully walked into my one-room apartment in 1967 with a charming disposition at number twenty-five (25) on Omoshola Crescent in Warri. She was my first wife. We were blessed with children. We lost some of them and God Almighty, in His infinite mercy, preserved six of them who are doing well by His grace.

"My late wife, Mrs. Monica Guwor, was such a woman that radiates a constructive spirit of hope and optimism that made her unmindful of the discomfort she encountered in my one-room apartment at the time we married. Her words of encouragement strengthened me to face my challenges. Both at home and in my business undertakings. Her presence was like a comfortable soft pillow on which I rested my head after a hard day.

"She had a very good interpersonal relationship as evident in her accommodative virtue to relations, church members, friends and children she accommodated in our house. She was a disciplined mother, diligent, faithful, steadfast, and active in anything that had to do with good home keeping. She was a source of encouragement to me and my children. For 58 years we lived as one. We had our challenges, but that gentle smiling face on several occasions renders those challenges irrelevant. She hardly complains and even when she does it was geared towards making corrections so as to ameliorate challenging occurrences.

"There are so many pleasant memories of my late wife that would not be possible to put down in writing at the moment. Being the first, she was a pleasant companion. I truly thank God for the years we lived together. I love her and I will miss her greatly. That pleasant smile will hardly escape my memory. I will not easily forget that voice that calls me when she needs something. ‘Papa Kenneth’. She never called me by my name throughout her life with me. Her words of appreciation and encouragement were very much appreciated by me.

"My beloved wife, late Mrs. Monica Guwor, is now free from the troubles of this life. We shall, by God's grace, see her again on that day of Resurrection when our Lord Jesus Christ shall reward all men according to their works.

"The glorious and comforting promise of God concerning the Resurrection of the dead is the hope of all worshippers. My late wife shall come back to life on that day of Resurrection.

"May Jehovah the Father of all comfort us all. May He also help us all to continue in His service faithfully unto the end by His grace and power through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."

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