Before the birthday party, she and her children had put together her autobiography. During the party, she just told the participants the highlights of her life. Today, during her burial service, the full story will be read, and it goes as follows:

My name is Patience Abla Awudee. I was born on December 26, 1944. I’m the third-born of my mother’s four children and the sixth-born of my father’s ten children. My father was the late Lawrence Awudi Aliƒui Fianu, a renown goldsmith and businessman who hailed from Anyako but lived at Keta. My mother was Vincentia Nyeŋu Amedume from Abɔlɔve but lived at Keta with her husband. She was one of the major maize sellers in the Keta market in the fifties and early sixties.

I spent my childhood days in my father’s house at Keta together with our elder sister, Davi Beauty and my younger siblings, Ablewɔ and Kɔblavi.

Except Davi Beauty, we all attended the KETA A. M. E. Zion School. I completed the elementary school in 1963 with the Middle School Leaving Certificate.