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Full name: Olufemi Babatunde Awolesi
Date of birth: 17th October 1930
Place of family origin: Ode Remo, now in Ogun State
My Father:
Samuel Diwoote Awolesi (died 1st August 1947)
My Mother:
Florence Iroleye Akinwunmi (maiden name Iroleye Akinwunmi), christened Florence in the Methodist Church, Ode Remo; petty trader; returned from Lagos to Ode Remo in 1937, died 1st February 1938.
Birth order and siblings
Full Siblings
Babafunmi (boy, born 1933, died young).
Ibitola (girl, born 1935, died young).
Half Sibling
Bode (daughter of Samuel by an earlier marriage). Bode is still living and has children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Two of Bode's children died.
Full name: Olatunde Temitayo AWOLESI Nee OLUKOKUN
Date of birth: June 9th 1934 in Itun nla
Place of family origin: Sagamu Ogun State
My Father:
Pa James Adetobunwa Olukokun
The first born of his Parents with two sisters and five half-brothers and two half-sisters. His mother is from Ikorodu and his Father is from Olukokun Royal Family of Makun Sagamu, Ogun State.
My Mother:
Mama Beatrice Abosede Olukokun Nee Oso of Isote Makun Sagamu Ogun State. She had two brothers and four Sisters.
I attended U.A.M. Eleja School in Sagamu, from there to Methodist School Ekotedo Ibadan and from there to Wesley School, Agege in Lagos State. From there I was back at Sagamu Wesley School, there I finished my schooling and I got a job as a teacher at Ogere Remo Wesley School from 1955 to 1956. I was transferred to Wesley School Ode-Remo in 1957 where I met Mr Olufemi Babatunde Awolesi and we got married on the 23rd December 1957 at Kano Magistrate court.
I taught in few other schools in Kano before we are transferred back to Lagos in 1961.
In 1964 I went to London to join my Husband. There I studied Catering and returned to Lagos in 1978 and I worked with Nigerian Air ways till 1984 before I started my own businesses.
We are blessed with Three Boys and two girls.
My Children:
- Mrs Yetunde Omolara Ajisebutu
- Mr. Olusegun Babatunde Awolesi
- Mr. Olumide Oluyomi Awolesi
- Miss Modupe Olusola Awolesi
- Mr. Oluseyi Olugbemiga Awolesi