{"id":29380,"date":"2013-07-25T17:01:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T17:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=29380"},"modified":"2013-12-09T20:18:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T20:18:42","slug":"lettershular","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=29380","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Janet L. Shular"},"content":{"rendered":"

Statement of Support for Evergreen Cemetery to hold\/host Jonestown Survivors Memorial Service on May 29, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was a member of People’s Temple Christian Church in San Francisco from 1971 thru 1977.\u00a0 I met and married my late husband there.\u00a0We adopted children who were brought there by an aging relative to be\u00a0placed in a family and given a home in which to be reared. We\u00a0also took into our home and cared for other children; children\u00a0who were relatives of other temple members.<\/p>\n

Because of our intense fear of the future with Jim Jones and our growing distrust of him, my husband and I secretly made an escape plan for ourselves and our adopted children.\u00a0With\u00a0the help and support of our mid west based\u00a0family and a few close friends who remained in the bay area, our plan was successfully executed just months prior to the mass exodus to Guyana. For legal reasons, we\u00a0left behind the non adopted children. They were\u00a0sent\u00a0to Guyana. They died there. Their\u00a0names WILL appear on the memorial.<\/p>\n

As a\u00a0former member of People’s Temple Christian Church and as a self designated\u00a0lifetime member of the survivors support group, I strongly\u00a0endorse the work\u00a0and efforts of\u00a0Evergreen Cemetery,\u00a0 the survivors group, the legal team and ALL who believe it appropriate for the ceremonial service to take place as planned on May 29, 2011.\u00a0In 1978, I was 38 years old. That was a long time ago. After ALL these many years and to this day, a truly proper memorial has not been established.\u00a0 It seems to me that the fair, sane and sensible\u00a0remedy for that is for Evergreen to be granted the right to allow the ceremony on May 29, 2011. As I see it, NOW is the time to resolve this issue for the dead and for the living.<\/p>\n

Although I will not be at the ceremony as I live in Ohio and work with young women who are choosing to relinquish their child for adoption through an openness\u00a0process, and since I am obligated and committed to being with them when they give birth, I just am unable to attend this ceremony. My eldest son adopted from People’s Temple more than forty years ago, will be traveling from Ohio to attend on behalf of our family and as a means of finding peace after having “lost”, at such a young age, his playmates to death.<\/p>\n

I will not be there but my heart IS with them.<\/p>\n

Please share this information with the legal team and the Judge as indicative of my heartfelt sentiments that are intended to support the Jonestown Memorial Service of May 29, 2011 at Evergreen .<\/p>\n

Thank you very much,<\/p>\n

Janet L. Shular, MA, LSW<\/p>\n

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Statement of Support for Evergreen Cemetery to hold\/host Jonestown Survivors Memorial Service on May 29, 2011 I was a member of People’s Temple Christian Church in San Francisco from 1971 thru 1977.\u00a0 I met and married my late husband there.\u00a0We adopted children who were brought there by an aging relative to be\u00a0placed in a family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":29400,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29380","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29380"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51495,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29380\/revisions\/51495"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}