John Williams N. Fomenky

Well, God loves you more.  We will all miss your smiling face which always brought some sort of comfort to us.  You always made us forget our problems and encouraged us to be positive.  We watched you year after year go through all kinds of changes in your life.  You were a brave warrior, a good fighter, a lover of life and you made the best of it all.  I remember the last time we thought you will no longer be with us.  You were in the hospital, looking almost gone.  I remember the fear in the eyes of your sisters  We spent days taking turns to sing and pray with you.  We had even made arrangements with the hospital chapel for final arrangements.  Had we known that you will come around and spend some ten years with us.  I remember the day you opened your eyes and saw us standing by you.  You looked at us and started laughing, narrating to us all the things we did and said during the period you were in the hospital.  You said things like Vekima, you think say I no hear you di talk for bakweri say make I wake up.  I no be don meng oh.  I be dey far we.  Nalo, you think say I no hear all wuna singing and prayers, I be John oh, my time never reach.  How you deceived us.  You faught a good fight, you have won the race.  May the Almaighty God guide your path.

Nalowe Martin and others in Cameroon

Brother John,

From the very day I was introduced to you as part of this great big family, you opened your arms and welcomed me not as a sister-in-law but as your junior sister. You fought and won many battles before and I was praying this would be just another battle for you to win and put under your belt. With plans of spending tomorrow (Friday, 4/30/10) with you at the hospital, the Lord decided it was time to come home before I had the opportunity. Your smiles, jokes and voice will forever be embedded in my heart. Your strength and courage to always look at the silver linning in every dark cloud, to turn every negative into something positive and your love for family and friends are lessons you taught so many of us without even knowing it. You have left a piece of yourself in us that we will forever hold dear and close. You were a brother that many would have loved to have and know. I thank the Lord for giving me the opportunity to know you and call you a big brother. We love you but our Heavenly Father loved you more and called you home to rest. Brother John, may your journey and your rest be filled with peace with no more pains till we too are called to reunite when our jobs here on earth are done. May your smile forever shine bright in the heavens above. You will be greatly missed.

John, it is hard to start describing who you were to us your cousins. However, to me, you were an inspiration. You made me know that whatever adversity that comes my way, I have to take it in strides, and smile everyday about it. From when we were kids growing up and seeing you being sick, there was never a day that you did not bounce back with a joke and a smile. My favorite line is when you would say "Molus this one nearly kill me-oh. I almost meng." This was always your line when you come out of a terrible attack of your illness. The way you did bounce back and smiled with your jovial manner made me know that I should never refuse what nature gives to me, but use it to make a better life for my self. John, you did accept what nature gave you with strides. You made a better life for your self as well. You were vibrant, joyful, the biggest joke-star anyone can find, handsome, caring, loving, very family oriented, always well dressed, well mannered, and brave. Just to mention a few of the qualities that the Lord blessed you with. Now that you are gone, I know you are in a better place. I know there is no pain in your soul, and I know you are smiling and trying to tell us not to worry because you are fine in the bosom of the Lord our God. You fulfilled some of the childhood dreams that you, late manga, and I, used to sit and dream of when we sun-bask our selves in front of Mbamba's house at Coconut Island in Victoria. Thank God to have sent you to us. We will never forget you. May you rest in peace until we someday join you. Thanks for being my senior brother. One who cared and loved all of us unassumingly.