Hello! My name is Martina and I’m from Portland, Oregon. I’ve been given quite the honor today to share, in brief, the earthly voyage of my uncle - who many of you knew as John Wilson. I hope that the next few minutes will comfort your hearts and remind you how precious life is. So let me take you on a journey of this man’s life - a life that was truly an adventure and well lived. 
  
So picture this: It’s a glorious summer day in June of 1954. We find ourselves in a big town named Arad in the country of Romania. A little boy is born in the family of Maria and John Budisan. He was named John, but in Romanian John is also known as Ioan or Ioanel. Fun fact: as a little kid my uncle couldn’t say Ioanel. He kept saying Tinel, and thus the name Tinel stuck to be used by those closest to him for the rest of his life - which he thoroughly enjoyed. He kept saying, “I named myself.” 
  
 He was an only child to his Hungarian Catholic mom and Orthodox Jewish dad. As the only child, his parents made sure that my uncle John/Tinel received the best they could offer in terms of schooling and how he was raised.  
   
 Proudly Romanian, proudly Hungarian, and by far proudly Jewish - this man was a melting pot of the best qualities found in all these cultures. He grew up being fiercely stubborn and wildly innovative. These qualities led him to discover that he had a passion for invention. With that passion God imbued in him a great mind that led him to graduate top of his engineering program in college. After college he was recruited for a time to serve as a security guard in the military for some very high profile figures in Romania. Here he gained esteem and more doors began to open for his dreams to start becoming a reality. 
    
This was God setting up the path for my Uncle’s dreams to take form, because in his late 20s, a young woman by the name of Anna Costea (I call her Anni now) stepped into his life and, wow, what a fire this light in my uncle’s heart. T

Thank you. My blessings go out to Anna and her family! My name is John Conlon and I am a friend of John and Anna Wilson. And have a dual role as their attorney as well! 
  

As I was thinking of my talk today, I wanted to express my overwhelming admiration for the friendship John has provided over the last 20 years. John and I spent many hours together. Where I was able to experience his extraordinary intellect; his compassion and his bull stubbornness in the face of high risk. 
  

So, I thought that sharing with you a short story of one of my many interactions with John and the court system shows the strong determination he possessed. This story is called the “Love Letter Strategy"; a strategy of manipulating a lawsuit by showing overwhelming kindness to the opposing counsel. John was involved in a lawsuit with a Los Angeles law firm noted for being very aggressive and difficult to deal with... 
  

The opposing attorney sent John a six inch stack of discovery for John to complete and return. But John had another strategy... He told them he would provide nothing because the case was frivolous. Opposing counsel filed and served a motion to compel John to answer although he refused to respond. Once he received the motion papers I got a call from John. He needed assistance to fix this problem. So I prepared a response relying upon flimsy arguments and dubious legal theory and the hearing was set.  
  

All hearings at this time were over the telephone so john and i were on the speaker phone, the judge was on a phone and opposing counsel was on a phone in order to conduct this hearing. The judge opened the hearing asking for the opposing counsel to argue his motion and after about 5 minutes of John Wilson being abused verbally by this attorney, he finished. The judge paused..... paused.... and stated 2 words... "I see…" 
  

That all John Wilson needed to hear before he started his accusations that the judge was biased against John Wilson and telling the judge of his

Me and Tinel walking going on a walk in 2016.

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26 junio, 1954 – 11 noviembre, 2023

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