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| Albion Mends Sr. |
A 100th birthday
celebration for Albion Mends Sr. will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, at
Warrensburg Manor Care Center, 400 Care Center Drive. Everyone is welcome to
attend.
Mr. Mends who is now regarded as the oldest
living Old Boy of Mfantsipim School, was born in Ada, Ghana, on Aug. 19, 1918,
and graduated in 1938 from Mfantsipim, a Methodist secondary school in Cape
Coast, Ghana, where he was a master student.
After graduation, he
worked as a postmaster in Accra, where he met and married Georgina Isabella
Sagoe.
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| Some of the children of Albion Mends |
The couple was
blessed with nine children.
Mends served in the
Signal Corps in Burma in World War II, and after the war, he traveled the
country working for the government as camp commander in the Food Production
Corporation.
Members of the
family emigrated to the United States in 1971, 1973 and 1976, including sons
Albion Jr. and Clarence, who were on track scholarships, followed by their
brother, Kojo, who came on an agriculture exchange program.
His wife Georgina
died in 1981, and Albion Jr. was able to apply for residency in the United
States for his father and remaining siblings, with the last family members
arriving in 1985 with the help of the First Baptist Church of Warrensburg.
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