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  Anybody from Waltham or Newton Massachusetts?

  by out of the box in

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  i wanted to know if anyone was from that area or lived there..

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  coffee_black

  Hi Lawrence,

  I remember the assemblies at Cambridge Latin... It really wasn't my circuit, but we used to circuit jump a lot...

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  People we've known

  by coffee_black in

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  thought it might be interesting to list some names from our jw association.... maybe someone on the forum knows or knew them... maybe catch up... i've been out since the early 90s... and have no idea where these people are now.

  i'll start with a few.. i've been in congregations in new england, california and florida... so here goes.... hyde park ma.... earl durst... harkins family... dekofski family... mills family...lennox family.... evenson family (from the early 60s) al rubin, john gonzales.

  sharon ma baltazar family... colmanaro family... .

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  Oops...sorry...it was Larry Kennedy...not Ted

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  People we've known

  by coffee_black in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  thought it might be interesting to list some names from our jw association.... maybe someone on the forum knows or knew them... maybe catch up... i've been out since the early 90s... and have no idea where these people are now.

  i'll start with a few.. i've been in congregations in new england, california and florida... so here goes.... hyde park ma.... earl durst... harkins family... dekofski family... mills family...lennox family.... evenson family (from the early 60s) al rubin, john gonzales.

  sharon ma baltazar family... colmanaro family... .

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  Brenda Newton....Melrose MA

  Tom & Marion Brown (in Circuit work in the midwest) & son David

  Charlie Meng (art dept, bethel) & wife Viola...who was at one time, my mom's best friend

  Mac & Elinor McCoubrey...MA

  Ted Michaels & Family...Tauton MA

  Alex Hadden....from MA....moved somewhere in FL

  Ted Kennedy & family MA daughters Lois & Karen

  John Rutecki & family...Hyde Park, MA

  still thinking...

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  People we've known

  by coffee_black in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  thought it might be interesting to list some names from our jw association.... maybe someone on the forum knows or knew them... maybe catch up... i've been out since the early 90s... and have no idea where these people are now.

  i'll start with a few.. i've been in congregations in new england, california and florida... so here goes.... hyde park ma.... earl durst... harkins family... dekofski family... mills family...lennox family.... evenson family (from the early 60s) al rubin, john gonzales.

  sharon ma baltazar family... colmanaro family... .

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  coffee_black

  Sam was a good guy from what I remember... but his wife hated me.

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  People we've known

  by coffee_black in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  thought it might be interesting to list some names from our jw association.... maybe someone on the forum knows or knew them... maybe catch up... i've been out since the early 90s... and have no idea where these people are now.

  i'll start with a few.. i've been in congregations in new england, california and florida... so here goes.... hyde park ma.... earl durst... harkins family... dekofski family... mills family...lennox family.... evenson family (from the early 60s) al rubin, john gonzales.

  sharon ma baltazar family... colmanaro family... .

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  coffee_black

  Sideris sounds familiar... Belfiore...related to Sam Belfiore, the Circuit overseer?

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  People we've known

  by coffee_black in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  thought it might be interesting to list some names from our jw association.... maybe someone on the forum knows or knew them... maybe catch up... i've been out since the early 90s... and have no idea where these people are now.

  i'll start with a few.. i've been in congregations in new england, california and florida... so here goes.... hyde park ma.... earl durst... harkins family... dekofski family... mills family...lennox family.... evenson family (from the early 60s) al rubin, john gonzales.

  sharon ma baltazar family... colmanaro family... .

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  coffee_black

  Thought it might be interesting to list some names from our jw association.... maybe someone on the forum knows or knew them... maybe catch up... I've been out since the early 90s... and have no idea where these people are now. I'll start with a few.. I've been in congregations in New England, California and Florida... So here goes...

  Hyde Park MA.... Earl Durst... Harkins family... Dekofski family... Mills family...Lennox family.... Evenson family (from the early 60s) Al Rubin, John Gonzales

  Sharon MA Baltazar family... Colmanaro family...

  Norwood MA Art Tosti... Magee family,

  Martha's Vineyard.... Flanders family Sprague family

  Toluca Lake CA... Schroeder family, Nev & Sue Wright.... Hank Beck,. Ron O'reilley, Daugherty family, Hogsett family,

  Winter Garden FL... Petersons.... Vishnefskis.... Richter family

  Rosemont FL... Wright family,

  There's tons more...but that's a start...

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  Anybody from Waltham or Newton Massachusetts?

  by out of the box in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i wanted to know if anyone was from that area or lived there..

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  coffee_black

  I haven't seen the Montopolis in many years. Gerry gave the memorial service for my dad. I think they are still around here. I know a lot of people have issues with them. They were always good to my family though. I didn't see that side of them.

  I lost both my parents within a year of eachother. At the time, my daughter was a toddler... and since I had no siblings to help, that was a pretty tough time for me... That is the only time in all my association with the jws that I really saw love expressed. My parents were well loved... the cong. put a schedule together to take dad to and from the hospital for dialysis...staying with him for the duration of the treatments....and were always there to take care of my daughter when one or both of my parents were in the hospital. They brought meals...even cleaned the house. It really was amazing. Almost everyone in the cong. helped in one way or another. Gerry was in the Hyde Park cong during that time...and pretty much organized all the help we were getting.

  I thought all jws were like that...that's the way it's supposed to work.... but rarely does. My bf's mother has been a jw for 50 years and is in her mid 80s....but no one in her cong. is there for her.. She only exists for them if she shows up at the hall or goes out in service....not even an occasional phone call to see how she's doing.

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  Anybody from Waltham or Newton Massachusetts?

  by out of the box in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i wanted to know if anyone was from that area or lived there..

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  coffee_black

  Hi Out of the box,

  I don't live in Newton or Needham... I live on the south shore now. I grew up in Westwood. We were in the Hyde Park cong. back then. (also designed by dad) Funny... I came back to MA 4 years ago after over 20 years in central FL.... Small world.

  I remember Alan, but not the other family you mentioned. We knew Alan's brother Gerry very well.

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  Anybody from Waltham or Newton Massachusetts?

  by out of the box in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i wanted to know if anyone was from that area or lived there..

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  coffee_black

  My dad designed that hall. I drive by it fairly often. I remember it was one of the first with a baptismal pool beneath the platform. I'm not far from there. A few names I remember...The Larsons, Bill & Elsie Bomigan(sp?) My grandparents were close friends with them....The Montopolis...

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  That Voice...My Story

  by Confession in

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  why doesnt he just talk to me later?

  i dont really talk about this much, but i just dont get it.

  he seems confident that eventually ill understand him.

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  coffee_black

  Wow, that is really powerful. I was 38 when I left too. Same process...a slow unraveling...followed by serious research... and finally freedom.

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