THE EXIT OF A RARE BREED DR. DENNIS OLUSEGUN GEORGE Thurs. 3rd Aug.1950 - Tue. 19th May 2020. We are still struggling to accept the fact that you are gone and we'll no more hear your soft voice, see your ever smiling face and getting your unique & regular WhatsApp messages. This symbolic gesture of tribute in your honour is a formal way of appreciating and bidding you farewell. (An illustrious Friend, Brother, Mentor, Worthy role model, a metaphor for moral & social relevance who touched the lives of so many people medically etc). For close to 4 decades, we have had one thing or the other to do with you & your family. We could not but admire your simplicity and personal attribute of patience. You were always ready to neglect yours to attend to others. The relationship between the George & Oyemaja families have come a long way and we have both shared the sweet & bitter sides of it together at one time or the other. Just to highlight a few:- * The extra medical care you gave my elder sister at your hospital in 1998 before she finally gave up at LUTH months later was well appreciated. * We have had many occasions to celebrate with you at lbadan & in Lagos (your movement from Unity Estate to Palmgrove as well as the movement of Jaiyeola Hospital from Salami Saibu to Bankole streets etc). * Glad to have played active roles at your 50th Birthday celebration in 2000, Daughters' weddings Mama's birthday ceremonies. * Tomi's admission to read Medicine at Ogun State University took both of us out of Lagos on a Sunday afternoon after the 10:00am matins when you drove me down to lkenne to get her an accommodation. * You even shared the same birthday with my late elder brother ( Ope Oyemaja) * You were the Chairman at my wife's 50th Birthday in April 2018, where you gave a beautiful Chairman's Opening Remarks. * Your roles in our lives right from Marriage to Child bearing up to a couple of days before your admission ( details of which will be too many to be part of this tribute) will forever be in our memories. Now to the services you pationately rendered in the church of God ( All Saints' Ang. Church, Yaba.) * You were one of the supporting pillars of the Church Clinic when it was part of the demolished Old Church building. * The roles you played as the Chairman of the "GOOD THINGS LUNCH" (a fund-raising arm of the Harvest Committee in the 90s) will never be forgotten, the yearly invitation cards you normally initiate the design are on records. These ; coupled with your good works in many committees you served & supported, the congregational Medical Lectures you would willingly give at appointed Church services and most especially the lives of many parishioners you came across and touched, Morally, Financially and Medically. DEATH is an inevitable end ( that is a compulsory end that must come when it is due. O Death; where is you sting ? O Grave; where is your victory ? DR. DENNIS OLUSEGUN. GEORGE, You have fought the good fight, You have finished the race, You have kept the faith, You will now take your deserved rest at the bosom of your Lord & Master. As you are being committed to Mother Earth today, We shall SADLY miss you, but God knows best. " Well done then, Good and faithful servant......enter into the joy of your Lord" till we shall meet to part no more at the feet of Christ our Lord. We pray that the Almighty will console & strengthen Aunty Jumoke & the children as well as the extended family and give them the fortitude to bear the GREAT loss. YOU CAME, YOU SAW & YOU CONQUERED. Here we say; with Gratitude to God. GOOD NIGHT ! GOOD NIGHT !! GOOD NIGHT !!!. Bisi & Dipo. Oyemaja (27-5-2020)