One Branch

~ Saturday ~

May 15, 1926

A typically pleasant day, mild weather conditions with blooming landscapes, the weather warm during the day and slowly growing cooler during the night, having a potential for thunderstorms.

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She was the fifth child born to married couple Josephine Maryanna Novak a Polish immigrant 

and Louis Bachman a German-American tradesman from Baltimore, Maryland.  

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Just a few months into her tiny life she won a Beautiful Baby contest. 

 

She then soon became the first of eight siblings to be baptized at age sixteen after reading a book her father received from a man that took the time to walk down a dusty dirt road in the middle of the afternoon, that had maybe as few as five houses during one of the hottest days in the year.  However, he was on a mission.  A ministry mission and he The title of that book: CHILDREN published by the WATCHTOWER , J.F. Rutherford.  This would be the FIRST of TWO treasures Louis gave to his wife Jose.  He told her it was a book for their children.  Josephine, being of Polish descent, had never been introduced to Jehovah and was skeptical of this religious book.  So, being the determined righteous  woman she was, she made the decision to read the book to make sure it was ‘safe’ for HER children to read.  She wouldn’t want to confuse their little minds.  So she took to reading that book.  Page by page, hour by hour.  All through the night.  And when she was finished reading that book she immediately exclaimed: “Louis! I FOUND THE TRUTH!”