In one of her enduring quotes, American poet, Maya Angelou, said: “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.”
These words come to the fore when you remember Ibidunni Ighodalo, the beautiful and high-flying event planner who died last year. For a good reason, Ibidun has continued to live in the hearts of many and her husband, Pastor Ituah, and other family members since she passed on. The ex-beauty queen died in the early hours of June 14, 2020, in Port Harcourt while on assignment to set up a COVID-19 isolation centre for the Rivers State government.
She died one month before her 40th birthday. Therefore, in celebration of her life and times, the family, at the instance of her husband, last Monday, organised a remembrance gathering in honour of the departed soul at the Holy Trinity Church, Ikoyi Lagos. Just like her burial last year, the event witnessed an inflow of people who came once again to honour the beautiful woman who lived her life for humanity
While alive, Ibidun, who ran Elizabeth R, an upscale event planning company, was strikingly beautiful and blessed with graceful steps. Her smile was also infectious. You would have thought she did not have any worries in life. But the former beauty queen and high-flying event planner chose to be happy despite what life had thrust at her. She lived her life for humanity.
Indeed, she never wished to part, forever, with her loved ones when she died on Sunday, June 14, at the young age of 39. The former beauty queen had wanted to live longer to see her dreams come true. And she had them aplenty, including marking her 40th birthday. In fact, but for fate, the late co-pastor of Trinity House Church in Lagos and founder of Ibidunni Ighodalo Foundation would have, in her wonted style, used the occasion of her 40th birthday to touch lives in her humanly best possible way.
