- A source close to the Kufuor family revealed to Asaase News that Mrs. Theresa Aba Kufuor, the wife of former President John Agyekum Kufuor, the second President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana, passed away at the age of 88.
- She passed away on Sunday, October 1, 2023.
- On October 25, 1935, Theresa Kufuor (née Mensah) was born. She was a former midwife and nurse.
- Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, her husband, was at home when his wife of more than 55 years passed away. Mrs. Kufuor hasn’t been feeling well lately.
- Mrs Kufuor started her education at the Catholic Convent, OLA, at Keta in the Volta Region of Ghana. She later went to London, where she was educated as a Registered General Nurse, in the Southern Hospital Group of Nursing. Edinburgh, Scotland.
- After further study at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford and Paddington General Hospital, London, she qualified as a State Certified Midwife with a Certificate in Premature Nursing.
- Madam Theresa Kufuor married John Kufuor when he was at age 23 after they met at a Republic Day Anniversary Dance in London in 1961. They got married in 1962.
- She had five children with John Kufuor and they are J. Addo Kufuor, Nana Ama Gyamfi, Saah Kufuor, Agyekum Kufuor and Owusu Afriyie Kufuor. She therefore died a mother of five, and a grandmother of eight. She is a devout Roman Catholic.
- She founded the Mother and Child Community Development Foundation (MCCDF), a non-governmental organisation operating in Ghana and Canada that supports work in prevention of mother to child transmission.