The Story (so far) about what happened to Jack and June Fargotstein

Information on Jack and June Fargotstein

This may or may not be news to you but it is news to me. I never really knew why Jack Fargotstein left Memphis and what happened to him and June or his family after they moved to San Diego, Ca. I will fill in a few blanks and tell you what I know. I expect that I will be able to add to this significantly after making more inquires….

Jack was the oldest of all of Sam and Sally Fargotstein’s 4 kids. Evidently, there was a family business dispute and he up and left and went down to New Orleans and opened up a successful Watch Parts and Jewelry Supply business. Evidently he had an opportunity to sell his company and cash out to take an early retirement and moved to San Diego, California. According to Donna Field, his former daughter-in-law, he was pompous. June was very nice and they had many friends and a good social life in San Diego. He was rather wealthy since they only had 2 kids and I am assuming that he invested well.

Jack and June had 2 children:

Stephen Samuel Fargotstein

Has a child named Aaron Xavier Edwards (18) who has cerebral palsy and lives in Loveland, Co.

Stephen shortened his name to Fargo at some point. He had a difficult life; he was married at least 5 times. He spent time in prison for insurance fraud and possibly other crimes. I will look in to it. He disappeared for years.  He had one child with Donna (Kornfield) Fargotstein. According to Donna, Stephen had moved to Costa Rica – possibly to avoid incarceration in the USA…at the time it was a haven for U.S. citizens fleeing persecution. Sadly, I am told that Stephen died in Costa Rica and Mark, their son, hadn’t heard from him in years and had no idea that he was even in Costa Rica. He found out about his father’s death via a Costa Rican government letter. Stephen’s ex-wife (Mark’s mother) now goes by the name of “Donna Field” and she lives in Denver, Co. (303-341-8050  / donnanmusic@yahoo.com). Evidently she is remarried and happy. They had one son, Mark Edward Fargotstein – who now goes by the name Mark Edward, but legally it is still Mark Edward Fargotstein.

Mark Edward (Fargotstein)

41 years old

Had one son, Aaron Xavier Edwards (18) who has Cerebral Palsy and lives in Loveland, CO., near his grandmother Donna Field (72 - in Denver).

Jill Ellen (Fargotstein) Taylor

Born 2/11/1943– According to Donna Field, Jill Fargotstein was very beautiful woman who was a model in England  and evidently she had a car wreck that ended her modeling carrer.  Evidently, since Stephen died first, leaving Jill and only child, she inherited a substantial estate from June Fargotstein and the story is that she had a drug problem and went throught the money. Neither Donna or Mark have heard from Jill in years as there is a lot of bad blood.  With that said, somewhere along the way Jill married someone named Taylor and they had a child named Lila Taylor who lives in Santa Cruz, Ca.

North Korea: Is obama getting in front of the Congressional riot and calling it his parade?

Both Democrats and Republicans in both houses of Congress nearly broke out into a non-partisan riot at POTUS Obama’s policy of “doing nothing” towards a belligerent North Korea who has broken every line item in the failed nuclear agreement orchestrated by former POTUS Bill Clinton. The successful ballistic missile test into outer space was the last straw for Congress and both the Senate and House passed a bill composed of sanctions that have already born fruit as China, rather than lose trade with the USA, has frozen North Korean bank accounts and stopped many Chinese countries of shipping certain items to North Korea.

President Obama, in a similar fashion as what happened when Congress brought Iran to it’s knees with sanctions, is trying to get in front of the Congressional riot and call it HIS PARADE. Obama has done nothing about North Korea’s violations of the Clinton nuclear pact for 7 years, but AFTER THE Congressional bill, Obama made an offer to North Korea to allow them to keep their nuclear program under international observation in exchange dropping of sanctions.

Not only has Obama done nothing on this important issue for 7 years, but he is also advocating papering over the numerous North Korean violations with a meaningless diplomatic clause that calls for “international observation” – a key point already in Clinton’s nuclear agreement and violated by North Korea before the ink was dry.

Obama’s lack of response to North Korea poses a risk to South Korea and to the entire region similar to the mess in Syria that some will say was caused by the lack of American leadership when Obama turned his back on traditional American allies and his red line evaporated – giving a “green light” to every tribe armed with a gun to fill the vacuum.

I do not advocate the U.S.A. military acting as the world’s policemen for the world, but I also do not advocate total abandonment of our allies,  or 60 years of  consistent foreign policy. The U.S.A. can give moral leadership, it can give assistance to our allies, and it can use its vast array of economic levers to keep minor conflicts from becoming major human disasters. The U.S.A. is not in decline compared to the rest of the world, and it is precisely in these types of times that we should use our ability to influence to make the world a safer place. That is the ultimate “human rights” act, and I hope some in the liberal Democratic left can see the logic in a robust U.S. foreign policy.

How to deal with Adversity. Everyone has to deal with it at many points in their lives.

I have never "reposted" anything on my blog. I pride myself on being original, but I received this "life lesson" ditty from my daughter, Molly, the other day and I value the lesson so much I am breaking my own rule. Maybe my grandchildren will read it and benefit from it!

A young woman went to her grandmother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her – her husband had cheated on her and she was devastated. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as soon as one problem was solved, a new one arose.

Her grandmother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil; without saying a word.

In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.

Turning to her granddaughter, she asked, ‘Tell me what you see.’

‘Carrots, eggs, and coffee,’ she replied.

Her grandmother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The grandmother then asked the granddaughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg.

Finally, the grandmother asked the granddaughter to sip the coffee. The granddaughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The granddaughter then asked, ‘What does it mean, grandmother?’

Her grandmother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.