Watchtower Farms Cemetery gravestone photos - sad

by BonaFide 38 Replies latest jw friends

  • BonaFide
    BonaFide

    First of all, if anyone is offended by the photos, then I will ask this topic to be removed. I am posting the photos because I get sad sometimes about people being forgotten who tried so hard, even though they were wrong. Some of them we all know…others I wonder about.

    The cemetery is pretty easy to find, if you have any interest in finding it. Drive north on Red Mills Rd. past the WT Farms, then turn right at the first corner. Look to your left, I think its on Paradise Lane or just past it, anyway you will see a huge gray metal gate. It is electric, so someone will have to let you in. We waited a few minutes, the brother driving said someone always is coming out of there because they use the big property for storage as well. Sure enough, a few minutes later, a truck pullled out, and the bro inside waved at us, and the gate was opened. No one asked us who we were, I guess because we were all dressed up. Photos from October 2006. You can see the warehouses on Google Earth. To the left is the cemetery, you can see the overhang.

    It was sad for me because brother Biegler was one of my MTS instructors. Maria Mapula, wasn't she a dentist at Bethel? I think she worked on my teeth once. The other young people, maybe some on here know how they died. Sad. I am in a sad mood today I guess so I decided to put these up. Maybe someone here has info about some of the younger ones...

    BF

    BieglerBarryEinsteinFranzS. FriendGlassBeveridgeHenschelKnorrM. FriendMapulaMulcahySchroederSuiterSwinglesWildman (Clogston)Zanfardino

  • AllTimeJeff
    AllTimeJeff

    Gilead classes get to tour this... The Bethelites call it "The Launching Pad".....

  • BonaFide
    BonaFide

    I wonder what the younger ones died of? Why were they buried there? Poor families maybe.

  • Homerovah the Almighty
    Homerovah the Almighty

    The pictures are really too small to see BF.

    Perhaps you could upload them through photo-bucket and post them up

    to full size.

  • Farkel
    Farkel

    The "launching pad" is what it is called. They only got the direction of the launch wrong.

    Hint: it wasn't "up."

    Farkel

  • startingover
    startingover

    Thanks for posting the pics! Maybe I'm a little morbid, but I like this kind of stuff. Nice to have the dates too.

  • Mrs. Fiorini
    Mrs. Fiorini

    This reminds me of a recent thread where someone said Bethelites have to sign a form allowing the WT to dispose of their bodies if they die while in Bethel service. Why is that? Wouldn't they just send the body home to the person's family, like they do in the military?

  • sacolton
    sacolton

    What's the story here?

  • still_in74
    still_in74

    no carey barber?

    Well without him there I have only met one of the guys buried under those stones....

  • dinah
    dinah

    Didn't make me feel sad at all.

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