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Lastly, Rose Ball was NOT an orphan as Rutherford and the WTS later claimed in the 1975 Yearbook. The divorce trial states that Russell told Rose she could take his name, yet she declined. Russell then tells us why: "She said the only reason she didn't do that she was afraid if her father heard of it he would think she had lost her respect for him."
I don't know that this would actually meanher father was still alive. I could be a phrase similar to "My father would turn over in his grave if..." or "My father would... if he were still alive"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I interpret "orphan" to mean not that both parents were dead, but that one parent was dead, and the other parent did not have the financial means to support the child. This would fit the story there, and perhaps the mother was dead, and the father could not take care of the children. More information would be needed. Steve