The National President of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Mallam Denja Abdullahi has commiserated with the Fagunwa family over the passing on of the matriarch of the family, Chief (Mrs.) Elizabeth Adebanke Fagunwa at the age of 85, saying she deserved to be celebrated in all ways possible for promoting and keeping the literary legacy of his late husband alive until her death. 

In a press release signed and issued in Abuja, Abdullahi stressed that he was glad the Late Chief (Mrs.) Elizabeth Fagunwa died upholding and supporting the cause of her late husband, Chief D.O. Fagunwa. 

The concluding parts of the statement reads, “My heart goes to the immediate and extended family of the Late D.O Fagunwa, I equally pray the Almighty God grant them all the fortitude to bear the irreplaceable loss.” 

Before her death, Chief (Mrs) Fagunwa was an active stakeholder in Fagunwa Foundation, a foundation founded to promote the literary works of the Late Chief D.O. Fagunwa. 

In "Celebrating D.O. Fagunwa: Aspects of Africa and World Literary History”, a definitive book on Fagunwa, edited by Adeleke Adeeko and Akin Adesokan, the late wife of the most revered Yoruba writer spoke on the true story of Fagunwa’s death which was until then shrouded in mystery and half-truth.
She also enjoyed greatly the three day conference in Akure and the presentation of the book on her husband in Ibadan organised by the Fagunwa Study Group before her death.
Her husband, D.O. Fagunwa wrote series of Yoruba literature books which includes “Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale”, Ädiitu Olodumare”, Ïreke Onibudo” and many other unique books.
The Words Finesse gathered that burial arrangements will be announced by the family in her country home, Oke-Igbo in Ondo State.