Happy Birthday Odogwu Abi

The heartache that your death brought to me made me realise that I really do not know enough words because I don't know any words that can describe how I heartbroken I have been and how much I continue to miss you!

We would have shared a great laugh today!

I Iove you Odogwu. I love you so much!

And I miss you twice as much every day!

Odogwu Abi

365 days since Uncle WorldBro and I stood by watching helplessly as you were lowered into the earth. That day remains one of the saddest I ever had since I was born. It's a miracle that my heart & head didn't explode physically when I saw that first heap of sand land on the casket.

Tears were so useless to express how and what I felt on that day even when it almost blinded me.

It has been such a long, long, long year handling all these memories and your absence. My heart has ached to breaking point. I have bled in my heart so badly that I almost feel the pain physically.

It has really, really being tough and hard. Uncle WorldBro has been a great support & God's comfort has been abundant.

I love you Odogwu Abi. I love you so, so much!

It's so hard and painful to accept that you have left your Gina.

Court Filing

Published in Hacienda Heights on November 15, 2025

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: EMMANUEL MONYEI CASE NO. 25STPB12690 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of EMMANUEL MONYEI. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by JOSEPHINE MONYEI in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JOSEPHINE MONYEI be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 12/10/25 at 8:30AM in Dept. 2D located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner KAHLIL J. MCALPIN, ESQ. - SBN 199512 LAW OFFICES OF KAHLIL J. MCALPIN 8616 LA TIJERA BLVD., SUITE 305 LOS ANGELES CA 90045 Telephone (424) 260-6071 11/15, 11/22, 11/29/25 CNS-3985837# HACIENDA HEIGHTS HIGHLANDER

Odogwu Abi. 

Pops.

My Daddy.

My Darling. 

Nothing, nothing prepared me for the blow. I didn't even get a chance to prepare myself for the heartbreak. 

On this date last year, I was in ecstasy as I ran down the stairs to jump into your embrace.....maybe if I had known we were winding down, I'd have hugged you a little longer, and a little tighter! 

 Odogwu Abi. Are you seeing all that is happening? It's terrible. There's no other way to state it.

I spent the last 2 weeks thinking about today, dreading how I'd feel today....all the memories from this date last year..... my heart bleeds! Uncle Austin is not fine too but he's just trying to be strong to carry us all.  You left our eyes so wet!

I miss you sooooo much!!!! 

275 days. Just so heartbreaking.

I miss you Pops. I miss you very much.

244 days.

8 months.

Could never have imagined it!

I miss you very much. Odogwu Abi, I miss your love for me.

Odogwu Abi!!!!!

I wonder if I'll ever come to terms! It's just so surreal!!! Like.......how??? You???

Today was another day when the tears poured!

Odogwu Abi. 

It's been 7 months! 213 days.

Still so unbelievable. So I really never get to see you here again???

Oh Odogwu Abi!!!!!

We will only be remembered by what we do here. 

I am so happy that you are remembered for good.

Fly high Odogwu Abi. Your spirit can not die.

I love you forever.

Odogwu Abi.

How are you? You are in my heart and will be there forever.

Sometimes, life becomes very demanding, and it seems I am not thinking of you, but that can never be. I will always remember you, your loving and kind personality, the vibe that you were, and the love that you lavished!

It still hurts very much that you left, and I'll give my all to have you back here with us.

I pray that you are at peace even though it was such an unexpected end, an end that really thwarted your plans. I hope your Creator's presence comforts you.

Sometimes, I feel drained & long for your stabilising words, but all I have are memories......especially of your beautiful smile and hearty laughter.

I love you very, very much, Odogwu Abi. I am so glad you knew that I love you.

Odogwu Abi. 

It's been 183 days. 6 months! 6 months of living a nightmare.

I could never have imagined losing you.

It's still so hard to believe that it was you who left me.

I have missed you so much!

I hope you remember always that I love you very much and that it has been very sad, lonely and hurting living without you.

Odogwu Abi

You played the role of a father every time!

Happy father's day in Heaven!

I love and miss you so much! Your absence hurts me terribly, all day, every day!. 

I miss you Pops!!!

I miss you so much! Sometimes,  I feel my heart could bleed physically!

It's just so hard for me to believe that you have left me.

Odogwu Abi. .......... How I miss your fatherly love!

Today was such a difficult day for me. I thought of you a lot, and it made me cry almost the entire day.

Everything around me today reminded me of you. As I drove home, I remembered the first day we went out for lunch together. I was so excited when i asked for permission from Daniel & he told me i could go with you even when he hadn't met you yet.

I remember how we chatted and laughed a lot on our way. .....what an interesting drive it was! I remember what we ate, your chalk ritual😀. It's funny how I was a bit afraid of you that day, yet I felt so safe in your presence even when you told me you were a traditionalist. You were big, big, and big yet made yourself "small" so that I could be comfortable. You called me Ugboo and told me the meaning. I remember our laughter over sitting positions, but with a gentle yet firm voice, you explained to me why you would always take a seat from where you can see the door. You told me a lot of stories about yourself, and I just knew that I was in the presence of greatness.The ride back to my office was calm and peaceful. I felt like I was in the presence of my father, brother, and confidant. Your love got me completely, and I was happy to be in such a place. I remember how you opened the car door for me when we got back to my office and the warm hug you gave me. You told me to be safe. I thanked you and told you that I love you very much, you hugged me again; tenderly and with so much love.

You told me to look after my husband and children and that you were proud of how I took care of my parents, especially my father.

Your love made me always want to do well because I always wanted to keep you proud.

You were always very excited each time you were coming to see me, I remember how sad you felt on those days you couldn't come to see me after planning because of one reason or the other. You would always apologise so profusely, and I always wondered who I was to deserve such from someone like you. I remember how you chatted me up on whatsapp even while on ur way to see me, then the spark, glow, warmth, joy, and love in your eyes when I ran down the stairs. You'd always get up to take my greeting with a very bear hug. Odogwu Abi, I was one very lucky girl, and God loved me so specially to have given me one of His rarest gifts for free! I only hope you understood the depth of my love, respect, and admiration for you and the way you carried yourself. I remember commenting one day about how your advice about issues that looked gloomy turned it all around so quickly, and then Daniel said, "Odogwu Abi has the consultant's touch." I agree completely!

I miss you, Odogwu Abi. I miss you twice as much every day!

What will I not give to see you again, to see the wink in your eyes, the chuckle in your voice, and the sound of your laughter?

Pops, I wish I could talk to you one more time! I wish I could hear you call me "My Ginaaaa" again!

I wish you had taken a seat from where you could see the door on the 25th of December, 2024! You would have saved me from this misery!

Odogwu Abi.

Today makes 5 months.

152 days since all our plans were turned inside out! 152 days since I have been asking...what happened to Odogwu Abi? A lot happened very quickly after 25th December 2024. The people you fed and catered for turned against u in such a way that makes me feel that they may have played a role in the wickedness that took you out of this life, that brought all your plans to termination, the wickedness that made you not to enjoy 43 years of labour, hardwork and resilience. The retirement that you looked forward to; that you spoke so much about to Daniel and I barely 48 hours before your death.

Odogwu Abi, I can not explain all I have felt in these last 152 days. They have been the most difficult for all the years I have spent on earth. My heart aches so badly that sometimes I feel that it will bleed physically.

Oh! Odogwu Abi! You didn't deserve what was done to you! No! You didn't! You were a good man, you gave out so much love to everyone you met! Nobody was ever a stranger to you!

I can't imagine that I never get to see and embrace you again! That I never get to rest my tired head on your shoulders again! I never get to listen to your advice as you talk about the future you envisage for my children again! That I never get to just lie back & listen as you and Daniel talk about an array of topics!

Oh, Odogwu Abi! Odogwu Abi! Odogwu Abi!!!!!!

Odogwu Abi. 

My heart continues to yearn to speak with you, to listen to you, to hear the sound of your laughter, to look in your eyes......

I miss you so terribly! I miss your love, your guidance,  your words of comfort when I feel overwhelmed! I miss how we talk about contemporary issues.

I just miss you, Pops.

Odogwu Abi. 

122 days today. I still look for you. I still long to hear you call me "My Gina". I still want to look at you, behold that warmth in your eyes, I want to take those long calls from you, answer when you ask after Daniel, the children and me, hear the chuckle in your voice. I just want to talk to you one more time.

I have missed you Odogwu Abi.  I have missed you so much. 

Odogwu Abi 

I thought of you so much today. 

I can never forget the terrible feelings of misery, defeat and helplessness I felt that  day I got the news.....

I miss you so much Pops.

I love you.

You are deeply loved today,  tomorrow and forever!

I miss you so much Odogwu Abi.

I hope you are fine My Darling.