My 97 year old grandmother died last week. She was actually born and raised a JW. Her mother (my great grandmother) was a Russelite. My grandmother was baptized in Lake Michigan as a young girl. She loved being a witness. She met Rutherford a number of times and worshipped the man to her dying day. She spoke of him as if he was God himself. She married at 16 (my grandfather was also born and raised in) and she and my grandfather were so proud to be JW's. They were faithful to the religion to the very end. Never, ever doubting that what they had was anything but absolute truth.
She was a very happy lady, pioneered for years and years - had wonderful friends in the organization. Really knew how to enjoy life. She did some world traveling and dressed to kill. On her dying day she told my mother how happy she was to be so privileged to know THE TRUTH her whole life and she was so looking forward to waking up and see my grandfather.
200 attended her funeral on Sunday, which I thought was fantastic because it always seemed the funerals for the elderly were poorly attended. Both the brother giving the talk and the brother that gave the closing prayer were choking up. I did not attend the funeral. I just cannot stomach going into a KH. I told my parents I was sick (which was the truth).
For some, like my grandmother, not know TTATT is a blessing. She was so happy to die faithful.