Valentina Wojciechowski Cowett

1932 - 2025

Valentina Wojciechowski Cowett

May 1, 1932 - October 31, 2025

Our Mother, Valentina (Val) Cowett, fell asleep on October 31, 2025, and passed away at home. She lived an extraordinary life.

Valentina was a child when she and her family made the hard journey from Belarus by ship to land at last in America at the Port of New Orleans, LA, on Labor Day. Picking cotton enabled the family to save enough money to afford their move to New Jersey, where other Belarusian families had settled.

As a college student and a chemist, Val was pursued and caught by a young grad student at Rutgers University, Everett Cowett. They went on to build their family with 5 children in homes in New Jersey, New Hampshire, NY, and finally Greensboro, NC. Val and Ev were able to make a dream come true of having a real homestead complete with a barn, horses, chickens, and acres of crops (no cotton here!). Val even took a course in bricklaying so she could assist in laying the bricks on an addition to their home.

This home was affectionally called "The Ranch" and became a second home for so many friends in no small part due to Val's "Vibe"; all were welcome. Somehow, anyone who popped into The Ranch on Christmas Eve would magically have a wrapped gift under the tree with their name on it from Santa Cowett.

Cowett Family Beach Trips were epic; we were so blessed and never realized then how spoiled we were! Val loved all holidays and saw them as an opportunity to gather family together. Every holiday was an excuse for a gourmet, sit-down dinner with flowers and candles on the table. As the family grew, so did the dining room table and the size of the beach houses. Those memories are priceless, and pictures could never do them justice.

Not only was Val an amazing wife and mother, she was a great friend to everyone she met. She was a nurturer, a healer, a true spiritual guru. Val worked hard to manifest peace everywhere she went. She had an infectious laugh and the sweetest giggle, was the Friday night pizza goddess, she was a lover of travel to places far and wide, and wherever she went, she was always at one with the ocean.

Val was an enlightened soul, long before it was cool. We have always said that she was powerfully plugged into the universal socket where angels and white light reside. Our loss is heaven's gain, but we know she was joyous when she was embraced by a crowd of angels who welcomed her.

A service for Valentina will be held Sunday, November 16, at 1:30 p.m. at Forbis & Dick Guilford Chapel - 5926 W. Friendly Ave. Greensboro. In lieu of flowers, donations to World Central Kitchen or Second Harvest Food Bank would be beautiful. Val loved to feed hungry people!

Forbis & DIck Guilford Chapel is honored to assist the Cowett family. Online condolences may be offered at www.forbisanddick.com.