IN MEMORIAM OF
MISS MERCY ARYELE LOMOKO OF ACCRA.
Late Miss Mercy Aryele Lomoko of Accra, whose blessed and happy memory shall never be in oblivion, and whose intelligence of demise faltered her neighbours within the region of her nativity and the adjacent towns, was the sister of Mrs. Janet Randolph and Marian Ashong Hyde and wife of the writer.
The deceased, whose end came suddenly and under very suspicious circumstances of reasons seemingly preponderating, nevertheless not impracticable for her Creator to reveal as we may despond, was the daughter of the late Lomoko Annan, the first renowned compatriot in the annals of the Gold Coast who exhibited genuine purport of piety by a bequest of superb tenement situated within the identical region to a Missionary Body in furtherance of propagation of the doctrines of Christ.
In succinct, she was a " FEMME " of forbearance, strict sense of sympathy ; thrifty even to parsimony ; to these may be added instructive towards religion not religiosity ; piety not pietism ; veracity not mendacity.
Such were distinguishing marked features in the " FEMME " who departed this Cosmos of Turmoils to "TERRA INCOG- NITA " whilst her class-members were with her pouring orisons on the basis of recuperation on the 4th day of March.
Her relics were inhumed the subsequent day in the Wesleyan Cemetery amidst a concourse of dejected kiths and kins.
Inter alia concerning theological dictum, the Revd. Mclean Bruce portrayed " Paradeisos " as if it must open for us likewise at no distant era or as it would imply.
She was just ascending the forty-eighth climax of life when she succumbed to the malady with which she womanly battled during her declining years.
She left behind her Miss Matilda Philips, a lady of tender years, and two others who beforehand had attained the age of
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