Neville recounts his father's poverty, the family he had to feed, his mother's death in 1941, his father's refusal to remarry, and his father's death in 1959 at 85, leaving each of the ten children independently wealthy in company stock, now managed by his brother Victor.
Date (happened)
1959
unresolved
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
Place
Told
- 4 September 1965
- 1972
- 7 January 1966
Sources
Source
- Order Your Conversations Aright ¶6 (But when he died, that poor man could leave a family of ten independently wealthy – each, not just collectively.)
- Believe It In ¶63 (So when my father died at the age of eighty-five, he hung his so high he could leave a family of ten financially independent, when all the others went across the veil holding their hats so low they were in the gutter.)
- Who Is Jesus ¶14 (But my father had the ambition, and he had the capacity to dream — he was well named, Joseph Nathaniel — and so he could dream all right, and he dreamed his family into being. Brought ten children into being, a lovely wife, and raised the ten and gave ea…)