ETHICAL WILL AND TESTAMENT
I, Jon Reid Brill Sr. being of sound mind and body, believe that it is important to leave for others something more substantial than material things that can be acquired with ease and disposed of with abandon. I recognize that without this document there would be little of anything that will remain from my life other than the family that means everything to me. By expressing to that family some of the hard lessons, day-by-day attempt at understanding and acquired knowledge of eighty-five-plus years, I feel that I can possibly give some measure of wealth beyond whatever is left of my estate when the time comes to pass it on.
As you read the following, please keep in mind the intent, and forgive the shortcomings. In writing some of my opinions, I often quote from source material readily available on the internet. I have not generally attributed every instance of this occurrence but did try to do this in certain situations.
1. Chapters 1 through 4 - which includes a short family history and the raison d’etre for this. (Updated 8/3/2024)
2. Chapters 5 through 7 - goes forward with a short history of my early and adolescent years as well as a statement of some of my regrets which started at the end of this period. (Updated 8/3/2024)
3. Chapters 8 and 9 - that covers our early years of our marriage and numbers the many blessings I have received, and my appreciation of those blessings. (Updated 8/3/2024)
4. Chapters 10 through 12- that reviews my career with Graybar and includes a digest of the middle years of our marriage. (Updated 8/3/2024)
5. Chapters 13 and 14 - which presents some of my views on religion and the big changes that occurred with the "empty-nest" years of our life. (Updated 8/3/2024)
6. Chapters 15 and 16 - presents some of my thinking and musings and an account of our Retirement Years in Winter Garden. (Updated 8/3/2024)
1944-45 1953
Early 1960's I was treasurer of the McKinley Heights Mutual Benefit Ass'n. which funded the local volunteer fire department. This was at a park picnic area that we had just built.
1981
Much of my family story is in the process of being re-edited due to the passing of JoAnn.
Please bear with me in this difficult task. It will be done by 8/3/2025
2015
2005
1955
