The outpouring of admiration and exaltations for Adugo Ranglin-Onuora, at The Chapel of University of the West Indies, Mona, gave a graphic picture of her as empress, lioness, teacher, counsellor, mentor, humanitarian, friend who lived her life for others at great sacrifice.

The consensus was that her name will be written among the greats.

Adugo was truly a lover of the arts whose spirit of adventure took her across the globe.

The 55-year-old CEO of Conscious Queens Media Productions International, made her transition on Tuesday, July 5, after five years of putting up a gallant resistance against breast cancer.

In his eulogy, her brother Barrington Ranglin, remembered her as an elegant, brilliant, graceful and multi-talented lady. This he said were the building blocks of her distinguished life.

“Yet, through it all, my sister exuded a humility that seemed to be the seasoning of the myriad accomplishments that marked her life. There was a gentleness, yet strong resolve which became the driving force of her artistic endeavours. Her involvement spread to the arena of sports, literary events and music,” Ranglin said.

The departed Rastafarian mother of three daughters and a son, who was in the process of writing a book on Women In Reggae, was also hailed by close friends Nsombi Jaja and Bascillia Fray as a true ambassador, lover of the arts, artiste manager and environmentalist who was imbued with remarkable inner strength and peace which manifested in a very serene way.

As the tributes flowed for the late founding director of the Cockpit Country Heritage Foundation and Women Collective, she was remembered as someone who lived to serve others, sometimes at great sacrifice to her own health and well being.

“When there is such synergy among thoughts, it is obvious that Adugo has touched the hearts and minds and spirits of everybody, and while we did not collaborate on the various tributes…the thoughts are so in sync,” Nsombi Jaja intoned and a rousing applause from the congregation greeted her when she added. “My precious Sister Adugo made her transition from life to light as gracefully and as peacefully as she lived.”

“She lived, she loved and she left a legacy, and today we celebrate her life, a life that has been so rich. The quality of someone’s life is not measured by their material possession, it’s not measured by their status, it’s not measured by their achievements. The quality of someone’s life is really measured by the impact on other lives. We are not here for ourselves, we are here to serve and Adugo demonstrated that more than anyone I know….if we should put all of us in this place, we have not touched as many lives as Adugo singly touched.”

Adugo’s eldest daughter Kuya Onuora, shared with Life Tributes her reflection of her mother.

“The amount of work that she did in Trelawny with the Maroons, the Cockpit Foundation, sponsorship for children, was amazing. She had a brilliant victory because she had her breast cancer in excess of four to five years. She did not take much of western medicine she did it her way. I left my full time job when she really took a turn for the worst in October last year,” she said.

As a lover of the arts, Adugo the professional reggae marketing consultant, like the shining star she was, was sent off in the way befitting the was she lived her life.

There were tributes in dance by L’Antionette Stines, Amaniyea, Patsy Ricketts and Sofia. Musical tributes came from Njeri and Abijah Livingston, Carl Davis from Sheila Carter’s Jamaica Playhouse Workshop, the Knox Alumi, her children Kuya, Shaka, Ayana and Okuson as well as granddaughter Karima Hurst performing And Still I Rise.