I just found out two weeks ago what I had suspected for a couple of years. My daughter and her husband went to my father and talked him to changing his will. I am not DF'd but don't go to meetings. For years I took care of my father and my mother--all close witness relatives lived out of town. For seven years I helped my father take care of my mother had Alzheimer's and I spent 25 to 30 hours a week at their house taking care of personal matters with almost no help from the congregation or from witness relatives. If anyone is familiar with Alzheimers, you know it was an extremely difficult task--especially the toileting and the bathing.
After witnessing the lack of interest in my parents welfare from my parent's congregation, my meeting attendance and service tapered off until I finally became inactive and only went to meetings if I was taking my father. After my mother's death, all of a sudden the relatives who took little interest in her care came forward to inform my father that I was inactive and no longer attending meetings. It was also inferred that I was had apostate tendencies. That was because on ONE occasion I mentioned to my daughter and son-in-law that the Society had encouraged people to sell their homes and property prior to 1975. They informed me that I was in error and that was speaking against the Slave.
I am still stunned to think that my own father could turn his back on me after all that I did for him and my mother.
