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Rutherford's Unfinished Burial Crypt At Beth-Sarim
by Bangalore 27 Replies latest watchtower scandals
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Lady Lee
It should be noted that Rutherford was never buried there (the crypt was built on Beth Sarim). The city refused to allow a change in the city zoning to allow the place to become a burial site.
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JRK
Rumor is that he is buried under the garage floor in Beth Sarim.
JK
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blondie
The rumor also is that he is buried on then WTS property on Staten Island.
Watch Tower attorney Hayden C. Covington explained his role in the lawsuit: "I filed a lawsuit then in the courts out there in San Diego to force them to let us bury him out there on that property. Judge Mundo, who was the judge of the Superior Court, heard it and passed the buck, jumping from one thing to another, from one technicality to another, and finally after looking at the matter in a reasonable way Bill, Bonnie, and Nathan and all of us decided that we have fought enough on this and it looks like its the Lord's will that we take his body back to Brooklyn, and have him buried in Staten Island, which we did." [233] Speculation that Rutherford was secretly buried at Beth Sarim has been called "private rumor", 'frequently disproven', and "myth". [234] [235] [236] The May 4, 1942 issue of Time magazine noted Rutherford's burial at Rossville, New York , on Staten Island ; [237] a private burial plot for Watch Tower branch volunteers is on Woodrow Road. [238] [239] In 2002, a caretaker at the immediately adjoining graveyard answered an inquiry about Watch Tower's graveyard by noting "I couldn't tell you who is buried on it because it has absolutely no markers or headstones". [240] [241]
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designs
Maybe he's still roaming the Canyon's of Mission Valley and sharing a brew with the migra's .............. you can't keep a good Mummy down
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moshe
No headstone for Rutherford's grave? That shows you how important former presidents are to the WT Corporation and being dead makes you an absolute former JW.
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Think About It
This is interesting. Does people not know where J F Rutherford is buried? Strange there would be so much secrecy behind the burial of the 2nd Prez of the WTS, but then again nothing in the history of this wacky religion surprises me anymore.
Think About It
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Lady Lee
Well if you aren't breathing and selling then you are disfellowshipped. Death is the ultimate of shunning. The dead are nothing to them since they can't benefit from your slaving for them.
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thx144000
Staten island? More like Satan Island, bwahaha
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donny
Does anyone know where the remains of Knorr and Franz are?