I really wish I didn’t have to write this about Uncle Gab whom I felt would always be there… My earliest recollection of him was his visit to us at Nsukka shortly after the Nigerian civil war, prior to that we only heard about him but had never seen him. He was very musical and would often go to the university’s Christ Church Chapel to play the piano before we got ours. Their home in Enugu campus was like a second home to us when I was in medical school in the late 70s and early 80s especially when our parents where on sabbatical leave outside Nigeria and we would spend holidays and other times from school there. The musical evenings at home with him playing the piano, Aunt Bernice singing soprano/descant, one of his children playing the guitar and the rest of us singing different parts are firmly etched in my mind. I was also privileged to have received some lectures from him in physiology; some standard physiological values in Africans discovered by him are in use worldwide today! Uncle Gab believed so very much in Nigeria and despite his great qualifications and achievements had no plans to in our local parlance ‘check out like Andrew’. When he came to visit my husband John and I in Lagos in 1994 on his way out to Papua New Guinea, I knew that for him to leave meant that things were in deed very dire and Nigeria continues to need our prayers ‘til this day. Uncle Gab had always been so strong and young at heart; we chatted from time to time on the phone. When I saw him in June 2011 he looked ill but his voice was strong as usual and I was hopeful that with the care he was receiving in UK it would be well, alas that was not to be. My greatest joy is the information I received from Nkem that Uncle Gab accepted Christ before he went to be with the Lord; may his gentle soul rest in perfect peace, Amen. May God also grant his wife, children, brother (my Dad) and the rest of us fortitude to bear this irreparable loss. Ada Erinne (nee Ezeilo)