Mah Manwi Juliana Ngentso Laid to rest

 

By Francis Ekongang Nzante

Mah Manwi Juliana Ngentso was laid to rest on Friday the 10^th of December at the family compound at Alatening in the Santa Sub Division in the North West Region of Cameroon.

Mah Juliana’s final journey home began with a Night Virgil without corps at the family residence in Alatening village on Thursday the 9^th of December. The removal of her mortal remains from the Akum Holy Family Hospital Mortuary took place on Friday. She was eventually laid in state briefly for viewing at the family compound at Alatening.  After this brief viewing Traditional rights and farewells were carried out around the mortal remains strictly by close family members.

Next was the procession to the Saint Martin’s Catholic Church Alatening where a Requiem mass was said. Burial took place at the family residence at Ngoh Quarter.

The throngs of people that turned out to bid Mah farewell was a concrete manifestation of how she was dearly loved not only by her family but by the entire community.

Mah Manwi Juliana Ngentso was born in Chomba in 1929 to Nkwenty Muma and Celine Ndune. She got married to  Pah Atanga Nesuh in 1950. She was an industrious woman who got involved in trading; buying oil from Bali and selling in Alatening to educate her kids. Though she didn’t go to school herself, she was determined to make sure that her children received the best of Education. Another Business activity of hers was the production and sale of Corn Beer in Alatening.

 If the success of children were a reflection of how successful parents' lives were then Mah Juliana Ngentso was indeed a successful woman.

She was a very serious Catholic Christian and urged all her kids to be baptized in the Catholic Church. She was equally a member of Saint Jude and she handed her Saint Jude uniform to Nji Linda before passing on to eternity.

When her health started deteriorating in 2016 her daughter Mami Rose Neh took her to Ndop for medical care but due to the raging Anglophone Crisis she left for Bamenda where she lived with her son Edward Atanga until her demise on the 23^rd of September 2021 at the Saint Blaise Hospital.

Mah Juliana leaves behind 5 children out of the twelve that she gave birth to, 17 grand children, 51 great grand children and one great great grand child as well and friends and relatives to mourn her.