by RubaDub 31 Replies latest jw friends
I received a call from a friend in New York City that Don Adams passed away late last evening (30 Dec 2019).
Many of you Bethelites know him and he was the president of the society for a number of years after the GB got out of the corporate structure business. From what I understand, he was generally liked by many there.
Some in my family knew him. I met him a couple of times. Seemed like a nice person.
Anyway, he had been in poor health the past year. He was either 94 or 95.
Rub a Dub
My family knew him.
I met him a long time ago.
Thanks for letting us know, I will tell my mom-in-law, she knew him.
If he had been anointed he surely would have been on the GB. He fell between two stools—too young to be genuine anointed, and too late to join the overlapping bandwagon of young anointed.
Perhaps out of principle he remained among the inbetweeners—the genuine non-anointed generation of Watchtower leaders.
Do the r & f learn of a big wigs death at the kh? Will they do some sort of video memorial for him or any of the gb?
I'm sure Don is in Heaven along with Billions of other people.
And like millions of other JoHos who have made the transition life to death is he surprised!
RUB A DUB:
When I saw the thread title I thought it was the actor!
That just goes to show what I know after being out of the JW religion almost twenty years!
I’m with you, Bethelite! And next time I come to Arizona I want you to autograph my book.
LHG: I thought of the actor from Get Smart, too haha.
Shoe phone!
Shoe phone!
stillin ...
When he was on a judicial committee they did it in the cone of silence.
Rub a Dub
Will they do some sort of video memorial for him or any of the gb?
carla ...
Good question. It would not surprise me now with the jw dot org thing, that there would be more information and detail than was typically provided in the past. It used to be briefly mentioned that so-and-so has ended his earthly service or something similar.
Since Don did not claim to be of the anointed, I'm not really sure how they will handle it. But again, they now have a much larger communication channel with the internet than before with only the WT/Awake/KM.
Rub a Dub
