THE LEGEND LIVES ON: A Special Tribute In Memory Of Late Chief Josiah Chukwudi Anatune
By Anambra Alliance
Onwa, how time flies. It’s already one year today, since your glorious transition.
How the days have sped past, and enveloped each moment with recurring thoughts of your unforgettable days on Earth.
Big Joe, the radiance of your presence will continue to be missed beyond words, but we are all consoled with the fact that you were chosen among millions, to spend eternity with God Almighty at the time He chose to call you home.
You showed very early in life that the true meaning of ‘greatness’ is when “we live for one another.” From your childhood to your days at Emekuku High School, Owerri, the genius in you manifested greatly. You were already a published newspaper article writer in secondary school, where you won numerous laurels for the school in various competitions you participated in, and was crowned the Head Boy, amidst several other achievements and honours.
At the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, you shone brighter than a thousand stars, inspiring your colleagues as the President of the Marketing Students Association and charting the way to an impressive career, while bagging the AAAN Prize for the Best Student in Advertising and onward to redefine the marketing, advertising and public relations industries all through your illustrious career.
Despite your ground-breaking achievements, you remained ever so humble and believed that the greatest of greatness is the impact one has made in the lives of others and in his community. You translated this belief into action in every ramification. You loved humanity with phenomenal compassion and invested beyond measure in the lives of others. You selflessly nurtured and produced many professionals that are standing firm and equally establishing others. Your community, Awa, was placed in the consciousness of Anambra State as a result of the support and contributions of its worthy sons and daughters, with you among the first.
Anambra State Government felt your impact and so did the appreciative Ndi Anambra and others across the country, in sustenance of your transformational impact in everything you were associated with. You have given eternal validity to the saying that “It’s not the number of days you live, but the number you live, how much you give.”
You will always be the consummate professional, the quintessential advertising reference point and the public relations guru that the world was privileged to have. You were a friend, a motivator, an inspiration, a confidant and a true brother.
Big Joe, your jolly, ever-cheerful, warm and gentle demeanour will never fade from our memories. You have continued to live through your legacies, now and always.
Thank you, Beloved Brother, for lighting up our lives.