A Senior Accountant in the tax department of Mukono Municipal Council, Florence Zawedde has succumbed to cancer of the stomach at Mulago Hospital where she was admitted last Monday with complaints of sharp stomach pains.
Zawedde (50), was married to Ben Kibirige, a Mukono businessman, and is survived by three children, a boy and two girls.
According to a female relative found at the deceased’s home at Nakabago-Kigagga zone, Ntaawo ward in Mukono Municipality’s Central Division, she started complaining of stomach pains last October whereupon she was treated and since then, she seemed to have stabilised till last Monday when she got an attack.
At Mulago, the situation worsened and by Friday evening, she was on life support through artificial respiration. Until she breathed her last on Saturday night. By press time the body was still in custody of a funeral service home and was due to be taken to Sts. Philip and Andrew’s Cathedral in Mukono for a requiem service.
She began her studies at Nansana Church of Uganda Primary School and wrote her PLE at Mukono Bishop’s West Primary School, whereupon she joined Mukono High School for secondary education.
She later joined YMCA College for a diploma course in Accounts, and later joined Uganda Christian University Mukono for her bachelor’s degree. By the time of her death, she had just completed her master’s degree at UCU.
She will be buried tomorrow Monday, January 27th at her ancestral home at Kakira, Kasawo in Mukono district.
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