Margaret Keane Painter

[Foxes53]

Margaret Keane, Painter of Sad-Eyed Waifs, Dies at 94 - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

 

Here story was contained in the Awake, Famous for her paintings and the movie that was made of her life.

[Tortuga]

We were in the same circuit, and we use to see her at the Assembly Hall for circuit assembles. Several years ago, I was told that she was on hospice, but I couldn't confirm that. She donated several nice paintings to the Assembly Hall. Sorry to hear that she has died.

 

 

Edited June 29, 2022 by Tortuga

[Bible_Schulz]

This is the link to the awake issue

 

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101975483

Edited June 29, 2022 by Bible_Schulz

[Esined]

I actually just watched the movie “Big Eyes” with my daughter around mid-June and was shocked at how positively Witnesses were portrayed in it. I looked up her experience in an old Awake magazine. What an awesome sister she was with such an incredible story.

[Wanda Hill]

The movie was very good. Amy Adams received a Golden Globe award in 2014 for her portrayal of Ms. Keane. Ms. Keane was her special guest at the award show.

[Sheep]

The funeral for Margaret Keane will be held on Zoom, Saturday, August 6, at 1:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time (Canada and USA).

 

https://www.inlovingmemorymargaretkeanemcguire.com/

[Esined]

That’s amazing — thank you for hearing the info! 

[Dages]

Ho my... We watched the movie last month. That's a weird feeling. We will try to attend 

[Esined]

29 minutes ago, Dages said:

Ho my... We watched the movie last month. That's a weird feeling. We will try to attend 

So did we!

[coony77]

I went to the movie theater with some sisters to watch it back then. Later I bought the DVD and watched it again at home.

Sorry to hear about her death.

 

Did you know sister Margaret has a very short appearance in the movie? I think it´s one of the last scenes....she´s sitting on a bench.

[Dages]

The Zoom is on, a music video is playing.

Edited August 6, 2022 by Dages

[Dages]

It's started now.

[Tortuga]

35 minutes ago, Dages said:

It's started now.

We just got home from our meeting so we missed it. Who gave the talk?

[Parale]

8 minutes ago, Tortuga said:

We just got home from our meeting so we missed it.

It is actually still on.

 

There was a nice pre-talk slide show with songs/music - they are going to show the slide show again after it has finished.

Edited August 6, 2022 by Parale

[Dages]

9 minutes ago, Tortuga said:

We just got home from our meeting so we missed it. Who gave the talk?

It was a certain brother "Brown". 

It was very nice. Now it's the song and brother brown will close with prayer.

[Parale]

11 minutes ago, Tortuga said:

Who gave the talk?

Brother Robert Brown.

[rocket]

It was a very nice service and slide show. Zoom camera & mics were off so no idea as to # in attendance.

 

[Esined]

I wasn’t able to go, but a sis in my hall did. She said that the part of the talk about the hope and the resurrection was wonderful.

[Sheep]

10 hours ago, coony77 said:

I went to the movie theater with some sisters to watch it back then. Later I bought the DVD and watched it again at home.

Sorry to hear about her death.

 

Did you know sister Margaret has a very short appearance in the movie? I think it´s one of the last scenes....she´s sitting on a bench.

Not quite. It's at about 12 minutes into the movie.

 

[Sheep]

I didn't know the story of how her daughter Jane took the truth. She initially wasn't interested, and wondered why her mother would let JWs into their home. (Come to think of it, this was accurately portrayed in the movie.) So she joined in on the study once just to prove the Witnesses wrong! Of course, it doesn't work like that. She eventually started studying herself, and she and her mother were baptized on the same day.

 

 

Edited August 7, 2022 by Sheep

[Esined]

So beautiful! My background is in the visual arts, I’m a fiction writer, and I worked in the arts secularly for most of my life. So I love this sister’s story so much because she was able to work as an artist, keep her head on straight, and use her work and public voice to bring praise to Jehovah. 

[Bible_Schulz]

Nice talk. I. wonder myself how many listeners have been online. 

[Dages]

2 hours ago, Bible_Schulz said:

Nice talk. I. wonder myself how many listeners have been online. 

He said "hundreds". I don't know Zoom limit but I imagine we were a lot.

[coony77]

6 hours ago, Sheep said:

Not quite. It's at about 12 minutes into the movie.

 

Thanks for helping my bad memory, Eric

[Bible_Schulz]

Yes. I know. He said hundreds.

 

Zoom Meeting is up to 1000

 

But it was a webinar. This is up to 10.000 and with contacting Zoom sales person up to 50.000