WE were neighbors for 8-10 years. A little background, my
neighbors (brother and sister) migrated from Holland to Canada
and finally here in Calif. The first day I met Bill (not his name) he
made it known he was a JW, so I never told him I was A JW, LOL.
His sister I figured she was a JW also. They both were divorced.
He no kids, she two daughters.
Well as the years passed, he and I became good friends. He would
look over the fence and see me working in the yard, bring over
a few beers and we talk. He was in the concentration camps doing
WW2, we talk about a lot of things and of course the end thing.LOL
Four years ago he moved but his sister (Jan) stayed. We still stayed in
contact, he only moved 10 min away.
Jan his sister introduce me to the senior guitar class, but I still didn't
know if she was a JW or raised as one...
Well Bill became ill, heart problems. So his sister would ask me to
go by and visit Bill.
So I ask Bill, don't the people from your church come by to check on you,
notice I said church,lol. He said he have not be active lately, about
5 years, so the new ones don't know him. I believe he was A
JW in name only, his father a well known Elder in Holland.
Jan moved two months ago to go up north to live with her daughter,
so that left Bill here all alone.
She recently moved him to a convalescent home, it's just the two
of them here in the USA.
She called Saturday to give me the address of the C home. She mention
the only visitors he receive are two JW sisters that drop off the mags
once a week.
So I told her, Jan I was once a JW. OH boy, we talked for two hours.LOL
Her father, three brothers became a JW, she and her mom never became one.
She hated the JW's, she said it destroyed their family.
Well she want me to check on a nicer convalescent home for her brother, the
one he is in I will see for myself this week.
The irony a mental diseased, dreaded Apostate your only visitor. I will never tell
him I was once a Elder.