Sky Victor, first born daughter to the late gospel musician Betty Bayo, recounts the last moments seeing her mother in that hospital bed at Kenyatta National Hospital.
Her mother, Betty Bayo, had passed away on Monday morning, November 10, 2025 at exactly 1:03 pm, after battling acute leukemia and complications from excessive bleeding.
For Sky, the reality of her mother’s death did not come through a phone call or a doctor’s words. It came through her mother’s eyes, when she visited her in the hospital, the previous week before the death.
“Wednesday, I visited her. She died on Monday. Her eyes were yellow, she came down from the bed, while the nurses were holding her bed from the side,” Sky recounts.
It was in that moment, watching her mother descend from the hospital bed, that Sky saw something that shattered her heart. Even as Betty’s body gave way, her eyes were somewhere else entirely.
“When she was coming down from the bed you could see she is lying down but then her eyes are looking for her kids,” Sky said.
A mother’s final instinct. Not fear. Not pain. Just a desperate search for the children she loved.
Even in her final moments, Betty Bayo was not thinking of herself.
Her body was failing, her eyes had turned yellow from illness, but her gaze was searching. Searching for her children. Searching for Sky and Danny.
Sky recounts how she received the news of her mother’s death on Monday.
“So that’s when I saw my mum was dead,” Sky said.
Not when the monitors stopped. Not when the doctors spoke. Sky knew her mother was gone when she saw those eyes, still looking, still loving, still being a mother until the very last second.
Betty had been admitted to KNH on Friday after being transferred from AAR Hospital along Kiambu Road following excessive bleeding.
She was laid to rest on Thursday, November 20, 2025, at her Mugumo home in Kiambu County.
For Sky Victor, the image that remains is not of tributes or funeral processions. It is of her mother’s yellow eyes, searching, reaching, looking for her children until the very end, loving them with her last breath.
