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also helped him in his career as an insurance
salesman. Alex was also well known as a gifted
storyteller. He had plenty of stories to tell of
his life as a refugee and of his contacts with
St. John Maximovitch. It was from Alex that I
learned that St. John LOVED soy sauce.
One fact of which I was not aware until memories of Alex Kennedy and his wife
after his death is that Alex had also served as Caroline. I will always remember the booming
a Toastmasters executive. According to his voice with which Alex read the “Our Father” in
obituary, Alex had once served as a District his native Russian language during our Sunday
Governor in Toastmasters. I’m still trying to liturgies. I will always remember Alex and
learn from WHQ what district Alex served, Caroline as bedrock members of our church
though I’ve confirmed it was not District 7. choir. I will always remember Alex’s love for
(If only I had known fully the level of his people. And I will always remember a life that
involvement during my three years in the reflected the best of those skills that one can
Trio). Seeing the way he presented himself acquire in Toastmasters.
and the poise Alex demonstrated in every In the words of a prayer Orthodox
social situation, I can see how Toastmasters Christians often say for the dead: May the
shaped his life. He loved to teach, even at memory of the servant of God, Alexei, be
an age at which most everyone else enjoyed eternal!
retirement, and he had a heart for helping
refugees, remembering that he was once a
refugee himself. He loved people.
Looking back, I will always have fond
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