The memorial services for Brother Edward Thomas will be held at Cypress Lodge on January 20, 2007 @ 2:30 p.m.  We really need assistance with the Masonic Services, if you are available, and would like to help pay tribute to Ed, please contact W:. Peter Hull @ 239.404.6137 or W:. Darryl Kourdouvelis @ 239.793.5491.

Thank You, 

W:. Scott D. Johnson

Good Evening:  It is with deep sadness that I announce the passing of Brother Ed Thomas.  Ed was our beloved Organist for many, many years. Many of us have very fond memories of Ed from lodge meetings or our many social events where he would just start playing the piano to entertain us.  He was a great asset to our Lodge and will be missed. There are no details of any services at this time.  Please keep his lovely wife Juanita in your prayers.

 

Scott D Johnson

Worshipful Master

Cypress Lodge No. 295

clipped from the newsletter of Sunrise Daylight Lodge
 In Honor of Gerald Rudolph Ford,
The 38th President of the United States, Born 1913
- Called Home by the Grand Architect December 2006.

 

GERALD RUDOLPH FORD(1913-2006 )
Thirty-eighth President (1974-1977)

 MASONIC RECORD

Initiated: September 30, 1949, Malta Lodge No. 465, Grand Rapids, Michigan, along with his half-brothers Thomas Gardner Ford (1918-1995), Richard Addison Ford (1924-) and James Francis Ford (1927- ). The Fellowcraft and Master Mason Degrees were Conferred by Columbia Lodge No. 3, Washington, D.C., on April 20 and May 18, 1951, as a courtesy to Malta Lodge. Brother Ford was made a Sovereign Grand Inspector General, 33°, and Honorary Member, Supreme Council A.A.S.R. Northern Jurisdiction at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, on September 26, 1962, for which he served as Exemplar (Representative) for his Class. Brother and President Ford was unanimously elected an Active Member of the International Supreme Council, Order of DeMolay and its Honorary Grand Master, at its Annual Session held at Orlando, Florida, April 6-9, 1975; Brother Ford held this post until January 1977, at which time he became a Past Honorary Grand Master, receiving his Collar and Jewel on October 24, 1978 in Topeka, Kansas, from the Hon. Thomas C. Raum, Jr., Grand Master, Order of DeMolay.