{"id":3130800,"date":"2017-05-01T00:15:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T04:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/jack-irving-matthews\/"},"modified":"2017-05-01T00:15:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T04:15:28","slug":"jack-irving-matthews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/jack-irving-matthews\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Irving Matthews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Matthews<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><i><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jack Irving Matthews<\/span><br \/>\n<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, de 90 a\u00f1os, el 3 de octubre de 2015. Jack naci\u00f3 el 2 de julio de 1925 en una granja del condado de Baltimore, Maryland, hijo de Margaret E. e I. Waugh Matthews. Cu\u00e1quero de toda la vida, creci\u00f3 con una hermana y dos hermanos, alimentando gallinas, recogiendo huevos, orde\u00f1ando vacas y conduciendo mulas. En la escuela secundaria practic\u00f3 deportes y compiti\u00f3 en concursos agr\u00edcolas y oratoria. Despu\u00e9s de dos a\u00f1os en el ej\u00e9rcito, se licenci\u00f3 en la Universidad de Maryland, College Park, y en 1949 se cas\u00f3 con Patricia Whitney Wheaton. Gerente de la Oficina Agr\u00edcola, tambi\u00e9n fue esquilador de ovejas itinerante, aprendiendo a montar y mantener una motocicleta para realizar sus rondas. Tambi\u00e9n hizo un viaje de campamento en la motocicleta a Dallas, Texas, para visitar a la familia de su hija, incluyendo un d\u00eda de paseo bajo la lluvia.      <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gunpowder Meeting en Sparks, Maryland, podr\u00eda no existir todav\u00eda si no fuera por la presencia y el apoyo entusiasta de la familia Matthews, que tiene ra\u00edces en el Meeting que se extienden a lo largo de muchas generaciones. A mediados del siglo XX, cuando el n\u00famero de miembros hab\u00eda disminuido a unas pocas familias, y la asistencia al Primer D\u00eda pod\u00eda ser de un solo d\u00edgito, fue Jack quien dijo \u201ctodav\u00eda no\u00bb a la pregunta sobre si deb\u00edan cerrar el Meeting. Para Gunpowder Meeting, proporcion\u00f3 ovejas de su granja cercana para mantener el c\u00e9sped del cementerio recortado hasta que un cuatrero creativo las hizo pasar por la casa de Meeting hasta un cami\u00f3n que esperaba.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuando realmente se jubil\u00f3 y se mud\u00f3 de su amada granja del condado de Baltimore a Chestertown, Maryland, aprendi\u00f3 el arte de navegar a la fuerza; su hijo cont\u00f3 en su servicio conmemorativo c\u00f3mo, despu\u00e9s de haber volcado un peque\u00f1o esquife, regres\u00f3 al puerto al final del d\u00eda nadando y remolcando el barco. Un hombre del Renacimiento, a los 60 a\u00f1os aprendi\u00f3 caligraf\u00eda, corte de esteras y, hasta que la artritis finalmente le oblig\u00f3 a detenerse, utiliz\u00f3 su motocicleta y una autocaravana VW remodelada para viajar a ferias de artesan\u00eda con jurado a lo largo de la costa este. Traslad\u00f3 su membres\u00eda a Chester River Meeting poco despu\u00e9s de su traslado a la costa este.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">En sus \u00faltimos a\u00f1os, y hasta pocas semanas antes de su muerte, se pod\u00eda ver a Jack dando vueltas por Chestertown, aunque un triciclo de pedales hab\u00eda reemplazado a la motocicleta. Dijo que cuanto mayor se hac\u00eda, m\u00e1s se enriquec\u00eda su vida con la familia y los amigos, que no tem\u00eda a la edad, pero que no ten\u00eda prisa, y que no iba a dejar que su cerebro funcionara en vac\u00edo, sino que har\u00eda lo que pudiera con lo que ten\u00eda y donde estaba en ese momento. Dijo que ser\u00eda imparable si pudiera empezar.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Jack le sobrevivieron su esposa, Patricia Whitney Wheaton Matthews, que muri\u00f3 el 4 de enero de 2016; dos hijos, Joan Whitney McWilliams, llamada Jody, y Bryan Leigh Matthews (Susan); cinco nietos y tres bisnietos.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthews\u2014 Jack Irving Matthews , de 90 a\u00f1os, el 3 de octubre de 2015. 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