Long time 'evangelist' in WCG and later in a splinter group is seriously ill. The outlook is bleak according to other reports. Apartian was put over the French department decades ago. This caused huge issues in various European countries that were French speaking. Apartian was from French Arab stock and was not a true Frenchman for them. Sadly, his son Philip committed suicide on their front lawn in 1983.
AR 24 1983News this week about Apartian's failing health.
We are sorry to report the suicide-death of Phillip Apartian, son of Evangelist Dibar Apartian, the head of the WCG's French-language operations. Phillip killed himself on the front lawn of a Pasadena home March 31 after apparently calling the police. As the police arrived on the scene, he shot himself in the chest with a 12-gauge shotgun. Friends say the nineteen-year-old had been suffering from depression.
Hello dear family,I spoke to Shirley Apartian this evening and want to pass on the news about Dibar's health decline while he was in Martinique for the Feast. Shirley was unable to go with him, so his secretary and her mother went to help him, as he has many health issues.At the last of the Feast he went on a fishing trip with the feastgoers and got very cold. He was never able to get warn after that. Two days later they left, but had a layover in San Juan. There he began to vomit, was shaking with cold, and passed out at the airport, They took him to a hospital and he was put onto a cot hooked up to monitors and basically left uncovered and freezing.Shirley was called and went down there but was swamped by all sorts of red tape (She says they did not want to let him go, as they smelled money!) Anyway, She finally got him released and hired a stretcher airplane to bring him home.He is now in hospital in Charlotte, I guess, with pneumonia, heart fibrillation, congestive heart failure , prostatitus, and who knows what else. She says he is so HAPPY to be back home here, and appreciates that he can see friends and family. They plan to put in a heart defibrillator--can't remember the name-- you know what it is. but he is in dire trouble and your prayers for them all would be appreciated.They are giving antibiotics, of course, but at his age, he might not pull out of this. Doctors call pneumonia "The old person's friend."Well, he has had a long life of service to God's people, and he says he is ready to go, Life is very hard for him right now due to weakness and prostate trouble. Our prayer is that God will not let him linger in misery but will give him whichever rest is God's will.Love,
I visited Mr. Apartian in the care facility he was in while I lived in NC. He was NOT ready to go. He was saying that he wanted to get back to work, write articles and get back to being an evangelist. He wanted to be there for the people. Dibar also mentioned the idea of writing a book about what he had learned through all his experiences and with being sick. That man had the heart of a lion. I miss him.
ReplyDeleteShirley and I became better friends after his death. (I helped her at her house) She is not taking it well, yet is doing her best to be strong and make the right decisions about her changed life with out him. She too, has the heart of a lion. They were a good match.
That pair was one the few honest people in WWCG. The Apartians' believed in their commitment to GOD, and managed to rise above all the crap in the administration.
If more people were like them, things might have turned out differently.
Thank you for reading.
Lisa Davis
Very sorry about Phillip in 1983. And sorry the Martinique health care did not keep Mr. Apartian warm enough from deadly chills.
ReplyDeleteWonder why the writer stated Dibar was "ready to go", while Dibar himself wanted to finish some things.