Sunday, July 23, 2017
THIS ADDENDUM to my earlier condolences is hereby sent for the record in this case:
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After hearing Rev. Dr. Valentin Popovici's public eulogy in the Gwinett Romanian Baptist church where Mrs. Hortensia Popovici was a member, I therefore join Rev. Dr. Valentin Popovici in acknowledging that Mrs. Hortensia Popovici was wife of a great pastor, and in addition I would add that she was wife of a Romanian premier baptist pastor--a pastor as NO OTHER before him or after! These premier pastors are born one in 500 years in East Europe, given that this premier pastor Rev. Pitt Popovici had to endure terrible official oppression and harassment at the hands of communist-dictatorship agents in the 1960s. He impacted my life as no other Romanian pastor, and some years later after reflecting about his abuses he endured at the hands of the Romanian communist-dictatorship officials, I decided to go to the law school and learn over 23 areas of federal law--an incredible life's feat that a few lawyers can accomplish in this life! That's how powerful was my determination to learn to strike back at powerful officials (in federal courts) which abuse their power and render their petitioners' rights a nullity! Yes, this premier pastor Pitt Popovici and his wife Hortensia were our spiritual parents to so many Romanian baptists in America and in Romania!
I was their neighbor for a few years in Timisoara (two houses apart), and I was personally acquainted with the Popovici family in Romania, and in California. I even visited him at his residence, and he visited me and my wife at our residence in California in 1975-6. He was an awesome, always young-at heart and spiritually-flaming speaker at his pulpit, as no other Romanian pastor! I was so impressed that Hortensia backed him up with incredible devotion and loyalty--as a wife of a great Romanian pastor would do. In these times of terrible loss of his loyal wife Hortensia, I join tens of thousands of Romanian baptists in Romania and in America in offering our most sincere and heartfelt condolences to Rev. Pitt Popovici. May God Almighty give him abundant peace of mind to overcome the loss of his dear wife, Hortensia!
