Fraternity-Testvériség, 1963 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1963-02-01 / 2. szám
FRATERNITY 3 JOSEPH KECSKEMETHY: ITEMS OF INTEREST WHAT A DIFFERENT STORY HAD THERE BEEN LIFE INSURANCE! Recently, the following short and interesting story appeared in one of the Review and Research pamphlets: I am a widow whose husband didn’t believe in life insurance. When he died, I took a job — the only job I could find where age was not a factor and no previous experience was necessary. I was 46 years old and had never worked away from home before. This year, when her closest friends started to college, my 18- year-old daughter started to work. My young son, at 14, has one great ambition — to earn lots of money so he can buy me the kind of luxuries we had “when Dad was here.” What a different story if there had been life insurance! Fortunately for us, my husband did believe in having his home free and clear of debt. The other small investments that he believed in were all practically exhausted in closing his estate. Before that, “liquid assets” had been only a term to me. I wish that I could ask every man I meet on the street, “Have you provided enough life insurance for your family?” I wish I could say to every wife, “Some day you’ll be a widow — what will you do for money then?” I wish I could go to them and show them my paycheck and my bank balance, and the bills that come in month after month. I’d like to tell them how difficult it is to deny your children things they want so much. I’d like to make those people see how abruptly a way of living can change. My husband was a fine man, a good husband and father, but he wasn’t able to look far enough ahead. Nor was I as wise as I might have been. But then, no wife ever wants life insurance as much as a widow does. Widows are usually strong believers in life insurance — especially widows who pay with considerable sacrifice for the life insurance their husbands didn’t want to buy. ★ ★ ★ To further prove the importance and necessity of having AMPLE life insurance protection for every family, we share the following true story sent to our Home Office by one of the branch secretaries of our Federation in Connecticut: I am enclosing the policy for $1,000.00 and death certificate of Mr. Frank S. His sister, Mrs. Barbara A., will be named adminis- tratix of the estate and the guardian of Mr. S.’s children. Please advise what I can do to help expedite this case? Ironically, our District Manager and I filled out an application for the deceased for $2,500.00 in October 1961, as the enclosed application will show, which was found among his papers. In spite of my repeated urgings to go to the doctor for an examination
