Mildred Christina Akosiwor Fugar

Mildred Christina Akosiwor Fugar also known as Mildred Ankrah (12 June 1938 – 9 June 2005) was a First Lady of Ghana and wife to Joseph Arthur Ankrah. She was brought up in the Belgian Congo and Gold Coast. After her husband's rise to power in the 1966 coup, she became involved in social and religious work.

Biography Fugar was born on 12 June 1938 in Luluabourg, Belgian Congo (now Kananga, Democratic Republic of the Congo); to Benoni Kwaku Fugar, a Ghanaian, and Pauline Isombe Edembe Fugar, a Congolese citizen. She was the fourth of seven children. Fugar started her education at the Keta Roman Catholic Convent in Gold Coast (now Ghana), where she also completed middle school in 1957. She then continued on to the Universal Commercial College (UCC), Somanya. Mildred began to work at the Ghanaian Central Revenue Department, now the Ghana Internal Revenue Service, after successful completion of her course at UCC. Fugar became First Lady. She engaged heavily in social and religious work.

Death Mildred died on 9 June 2005. She was buried that same year on June 29 at the Osu Cemetery in Accra.