The former First Lady of the Republic of Ghana, Theresa Kufuor, was laid to rest today on the courtyard of the State House in Accra. Former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s wife had a state funeral.
The event began at 7 a.m. with a file past and ended at 9 a.m. with a burial mass.
On Saturday, November 18, the former First Lady will be laid to rest at Heroes Park in Kumasi. Mrs Kufour died on Sunday, October 1, at the age of 88, in her house in Peduase.
Funeral Mass
The requiem mass brought together high-profile personalities, politicians, family and friends of the late former First Lady.
The late Theresa Aba Kufuor had been a devoted companion of former President Kufuor throughout their 61 years of marriage. She was a member of a well-known family from Odumase, in the Bono Region, and a retired nurse and midwife. She lived most of her working life in the United Kingdom after her studies at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and Paddington General Hospital in London.
Acknowledged as a state-certified midwife with a certificate in premature nursing, a last born to her parents