Watchtower Victims Memorial

The Watchtower Victims Memorial is dedicated to the memory of Jehovah's Witnesses and their minor children who died as a result of the Brooklyn-based Watchtower Bible and Tract Society's decrees banning blood transfusions, organ transplants, skin grafts, and vaccinations -- as well as other individuals whose deaths due to suicide, abandonment, etc., are attributable to the Watchtower Society in the view of surviving loved ones.

More about Michelle Hartley

Jehovah's Witness, age 23, died 1983 at Brandon, Florida. Refused blood after a car accident. SOURCE (private e-mail): her best friend Lydia Paterson:
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 11:02:49 -0700
From: abaweb@webcom.com
To: memorial@abaweb.com
Subject: add2meml form

victim_name=Michelle Hartley
victim_age=23
date_died=1983
place_died=Brandon, Florida
cause_died=refused Blood Transfusion after car accident
source=This was my best friend. She thought that if she took blood , that "Jehovah" would kill her children!
relationship=Friend
submitter_name=Lydia Paterson
email_addr=lpaterson@brigadoon.com
visitor_url=
comments=This is the second time I have submitted Michelle. The first was several months ago.
email=memorial@abaweb.com
From: "Lydia Paterson" <lpaterson@brigadoon.com>
To: "Dave Reed at Abaweb" <abaweb@abaweb.com>
Subject: Re: Michelle Hartley, Watchtower Victims Memorial submission
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 22:12:47 -0400
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Dave:

Thanks for responding. Michelle was my best friend since childhood. I was
in her wedding when she married my first cousin Michael Hartley. I was at
the hospital when she died. She was hit by drunk drive at appx. 1 AM and
died appx 9:30 AM. the same day. She had internal injuries, her spleen had
been ruptured. She stated to my cousin that she was afraid to take the
blood transfusion, because she felt that she would be killing her children.
This was one of the most difficult things I have ever delt with. I can only
imagine what a difficult decision it was for her. I miss her and hope that
she is in God's hands watching over her children in a NEW LIGHT and
understanding that the brainwashing she experienced here on this earth was
only a lesson and she resides in peace and happiness, with the hope she
will be rejoined with her children in the real God's light. God Bless in
your efforts!...

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> From: Dave Reed at Abaweb <abaweb@abaweb.com>
> To: lpaterson@brigadoon.com
> Subject: Michelle Hartley, Watchtower Victims Memorial submission
> Date: Friday, May 22, 1998 3:04 PM
>
> Dear Lydia:
>
> Thanks for submitting the information below to the Watchtower Victims
> Memorial. Would you please be so kind as to reply to this e-mail,
> verifying that you are actually the one who submitted the information?
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience, but we receive many fake submissions. So we
> try to check them out before posting to avoid embarrassing anyone.
>
> Thanks, again.
>
> -David
>
> David A. Reed for Watchtower Victims Memorial
memorial@abaweb.com
>
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>>Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 11:02:49 -0700
>>From: abaweb@webcom.com
>>To: memorial@abaweb.com
>>Subject: add2meml form
>>
>>victim_name=Michelle Hartley
>>victim_age=23
>>date_died=1983
>>place_died=Brandon, Florida
>>cause_died=refused Blood Transfusion after car accident
>>source=This was my best friend. She thought that if she took blood ,
that
>>"Jehovah" would kill her children!
>>relationship=Friend
>>submitter_name=Lydia Paterson
>>email_addr=lpaterson@brigadoon.com
>>visitor_url=
>>comments=This is the second time I have submitted Michelle. The first
was
>>several months ago.
>>email=memorial@abaweb.com
>