Sheinelle Jones said Thursday that she is moving out of the home she shared with her late husband, Uche Ojeh, and that their three children are starting at a new school.

"I'm moving," Jones said on the May 14 installment of TODAY with Jenna & Sheinelle. "The kids are going to a new school, so we're moving."

The move comes about a year after Ojeh died in May 2025 at age 45 after a battle with glioblastoma. Jones and Ojeh were married for close to 20 years and had three children together: son Kayin, 16, and twins Clara and Uche, 13.

Jones said the timing has added another layer of strain. "As if I need more stress," she said, describing how she has been sorting through boxes in the basement and coming across things she barely touched when the family moved from Philadelphia to New York in 2014.

She said the process had become so overwhelming that she began avoiding the boxes altogether. "I started, after a while, not even wanting to look through boxes," she said, adding that she had been tempted to throw things away simply because they had not been opened in years.

One of the surprises was her wedding dress. Jones said she almost threw it out while clearing the house, then found it tucked inside an old suitcase after going back through the boxes. "I just didn't know where my wedding dress was," she said. "So look what happened. I found this old suitcase and I unzipped it, and it was my wedding dress."

Jones said she never had the dress preserved, making the discovery feel even more unexpected. At one point, she said the dress might have been at her mother’s house, and the search turned up nothing until the suitcase finally opened the memory back up.

Her marriage to Ojeh began at Northwestern University, where she was a freshman and he was a visiting high school senior touring the school. Jones said she was "a fake tour guide" and was "just walking to class" when they met, then jokingly asked him, "Are you guys lost?" She later told him she would show him around because he was cute.

What started there stretched into eight years of long distance before Ojeh proposed along the Northwestern lakefront. Now, as Jones moves into a new home and her children change schools, the boxes in the basement are not just clutter from an old move. They are what remains of a life she is learning to sort through one room at a time.