They moved 10 or little more than 10 years. They have 3 sons and 1 daughter. One son is an elder in Belleville.
Jeepthing
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by Jeepthing inwell, we don't worry too much.
we as family are doing okay.
my kids don't really miss anyone.
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Jeepthing
Well, we don't worry too much. I was want this to be over. We as family are doing okay. My kids don't really miss anyone. When we decided to fade away, we knew we might get df or da by them. I am still surprise that we aren't considering all the evidences they got on us. They are losing people and hardly any young ones are there. Sometimes, they are so glad to see us. I feel bad for them because they don't want to except that they are getting smaller and smaller in sizes. Denial.
We are ready for whatever decisions they make about us. We decided to leave upto them since they are the ones claiming to hold authoriy over us. And we will respect their decision. But you are right about one thing, I probably would get upset somewhat just because we would be labeled as something we don't deserve.
Anyway, I am so glad to meet you and found someone so close to home. Hope to talk to more in the future.
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Jeepthing
Mimimi, is your bkconductor's last name start with "C" and is he from Granite City? My husband talked him not too long ago and he sure didn't turn my husband in? The whole family moved to Alton. They got mad at PO here and whole family moved. But they are very strong jw.
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Wow, this is just great. After all I am not alone. I know some from Woodriver. My kids used hanging around with kids from there. It is a small world after all.
I am sorry mimimi about your mom. So far no one hear wants to turn us in even though they have enough evidences to do something about us.
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Wow, my daughter just a dual bike. My husband used to go down there for dirt biking too.
I also know some from Columbia, Mo. Family from here moved down there about 6 or 7 years ago. The couple got divorced and I think both got df. They have two sons. And we have two moved here from there(brother and sister). Their parents moved to somewhere in upper states but divorced for some reason. Divorce is not a rare for jws as they claim to.
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Jeepthing
Her name was Florence Clanton. She was 98 or 99 when she passed away. She was jw for almost her life. Oldest one in this area. We knew her very well. She used baked chocolate chip cookies for my husband. Well for anyone finding about us, we are not so worry about that because we know where we stand and fortunely we don't have any immediate family member who are witness. And when we decide to leave we did it as family and we let few of close friends aware of what we were doing. They got their feeling hurt but we know we had to do it or else going against our consciouse would suffer. We are happy with the decisions but still it is hard for us when it comes to social life. Trying to adjust life outside of jw was not easy at first but we are coping and still trying to fit in somewhere. Just used to being around being in groups and always doing things with someone and suddenly none wasn't easy. We did a lot of things with them, camping, float trips and organizing for some kind of gathering etc... Well, we probably seen you somewhere in Grafton. We like to go up to Kinders for catfish frutter. Also like to camping at campground in Pere Marquette. Our favorit thing in fall. Very pretty and colorful in the fall. We are going to try to go there this fall again.
By the way, do you think someone in the site here spy for jw? That would be a very interesting to find out. I've been lurking in site for last 3 years and thanks to this site, I was able to learn a lot more than anywhere else. I visit here often and always looking for someone from my area or looking for new informations to countact jws still coming around us. Not trying to boast but sometime it is good to know what is going on with jw so I don't feel like I am in tatal dark. I like this site and it is very helpful. I have teens and little one. Do you have any?
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My husband went there for talks few times and I only went there once. We like to go up to Grafton and eat there. It is one of our favorit thing to do as family. I like Alton. Go there all the time. Do you still live there?
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Jeepthing
Fianlly!!!! I know several jws from Alton. Several jws there are from Granite City. I saw few of them not too long ago at kingdom hall here for memorial service for our oldest sister who passed away last August. Do you know who I am talking about. She was very active from here from start of this kh. Thdy call this kh a mother of kh for around this area because this one was very first one for this area and started other khs around this area. They are very proud of this kh because of that.
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Fianlly!!!! I know several jws from Alton. Several jws there are from Granite City. I saw few of them not too long ago at kingdom hall here for memorial service for our oldest sister who passed away last August. Do you know who I am talking about. She was very active from here from start of this kh. Thdy call this kh a mother of kh for around this area because this one was very first one for this area and started other khs around this area. They are very proud of this kh because of that.
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Jeepthing
Granite City is close to St. Louis and Edwardsville (this is where Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville is located). It only takes about 15 mins to St. Louis.