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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : John Maxwell to be eulogized today ( RJR )...</span>
A memorial service for veteran journalist John Maxwell will be held at the University Chapel in Mona, St. at 10 o'clock this morning. Mr. Maxwell died at his St Andrew home on December 10, after a two-year battle with cancer. Veteran journalist Claude Robinson, who was Mr. Maxwell's co-worker at the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation during the 1960s and 70s, says his former colleague strived for truth in his work:"John believed that journalists were to go after truth and truth was not something to be found half way here and half way there, it was based on a set of facts and a set of objective conditions. He didn't think it was necessary to find some balance ... if something was wrong it was wrong and when something was right it was right and he didn't have to try and find an answer to justify the other position and, so because of that, he as very strong and assertive in the positions that he held," Mr. Robinson said Sunday afternoon on RJR's weekly news review programmeThat's A Rap!.Mr. Maxwell's body will be cremated and his ashes interred at a later date at the Baptist Church in Duncan's, Trelawny.Mr. Maxwell is survived by his widow, Dr Marjan de Bruin-Maxwell and three children, Leah, Matthew and Katy. The John William Maxwell Foundation is to be launched soon in memory of the late veteran journalist. The late John MaxwellPhoto Credit: (Gleaner)http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...63902556986307
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : John Maxwell to be eulogized today ( RJR )...</span>
A memorial service for veteran journalist John Maxwell will be held at the University Chapel in Mona, St. at 10 o'clock this morning. Mr. Maxwell died at his St Andrew home on December 10, after a two-year battle with cancer. Veteran journalist Claude Robinson, who was Mr. Maxwell's co-worker at the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation during the 1960s and 70s, says his former colleague strived for truth in his work:"John believed that journalists were to go after truth and truth was not something to be found half way here and half way there, it was based on a set of facts and a set of objective conditions. He didn't think it was necessary to find some balance ... if something was wrong it was wrong and when something was right it was right and he didn't have to try and find an answer to justify the other position and, so because of that, he as very strong and assertive in the positions that he held," Mr. Robinson said Sunday afternoon on RJR's weekly news review programmeThat's A Rap!.Mr. Maxwell's body will be cremated and his ashes interred at a later date at the Baptist Church in Duncan's, Trelawny.Mr. Maxwell is survived by his widow, Dr Marjan de Bruin-Maxwell and three children, Leah, Matthew and Katy. The John William Maxwell Foundation is to be launched soon in memory of the late veteran journalist. The late John MaxwellPhoto Credit: (Gleaner)http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...63902556986307