Dear Family of our sleeping Empress Janet Edwards -
Please receive my words in tribute and in recognition of my deepest Condolences 🖤
Family, It was my complete honour to have known your Janet during the latter years of her earthly journey.
What a truly selfless caring soul was our Lady Jan.
She was a staunch Supporter of the Sickle Cell Community especially via the Sickle Cell Cause Community Support Group which I founded in 2015.
Many times over these years Lady Leo would highlight our issues on her Friday Night Radio Broadcasts on Bless FM.
She had interviewed me personally twice on her show and we were to report to her again during this month of September for community updates because September is World Sickle Cell Awareness Month.
I knew i was in the presence of divinity whenever we spoke or met up at community events, she was so on point and quick off the mark.
Lady Leo was a very prominent and respected member of our Conscious Community and was always amongst the first ready to assist our young and our elders with hands on Support.
Our Lady Leo really cared and wasn't the one to shy back from helping all persons in need and she never stopped when it came to speaking out about the diabolical issues faced within our Community.
I found her to be always happy, yet very strong, pro active and highly Conscious.
It was obvious that she knew her own mind and got on with the things others didn't think of doing.
To me she was a friend, a Community colleague and a team mate in our community wealth building project.
I met her through my special friend and brother, another staunch Supporter of the Sickle Cell Community of many decades, The Original Supreme, who my heart breaks for at this time because I know only too well what it's like to lose that very special friend that you share your most delicate things with and i know they shared that very tight bond.
I have already asked my peers living with the Sickle Cell condition to be conscious of our staunch Sickle Cell Supporters who do for us even when we don't see it.
We all have issues and we all must be more mindful to support those that support us and lessen the load for the hard core do-ers like Lady Leo, who also had personal health issues of her own but she did not let that hamper her, in fact I didn't even know of the severity of her health condition until we received the sad news.
💫🪐 I will miss your presence Lady Leo and your twinkling eyes, mischievous grin and dirty laugh. But I do feel gifted to have known you.🤝🏿💐
💫🪐With the highest level of respect I ask with pure appeal that our Sister and Friend, Lady Leo - Janet Edwards ascends with the glory she deserves🙏🏿
*May her beautiful big family and all her friends be comforted🙏🏿
*May our Lady Leo enter into the realms of our Ancestors and take her place amongst the greats.🙏🏿
*Janet Edwards -
May you continue to Rise in Power
💫🙏🏿
Samantha Greaves aka Warrior Kween
from the Sickle Cell Cause Support & Action Group🖤
Samantha
17th September 2020