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HISTORY OF FRIENDSHIP LODGE

Part 3

The following Brethren were is the service during World War I:

George W. Hathaway
Charles B. Olsen
William H. Mobbs
Gerald F. Frazer
William M. Dobson
George A. Steele
Hector Jackson
Harry Jones
Harold N. Eames

Hubert B. Eames
Arthur Tenney
Rodney E. Buck
John R. Smith, Jr.
Charles F. Burns
George T. Neilson
Ralph L. Buck
Arthur S. Brazel

On December 17th, 1919, a Welcome Home Reception and Dinner was tendered these Brethren, and fifteen out of the seventeen were able to be present. Gifts were presented and the lodge was honored by having speakers, Grand Master-Elect Arthur D. Prince, Right Worshipful Robert W. Oliver, District Deputy Grand Master and Worshipful Frederic L. Putnam, Grand Lecturer.

The bronze Memorial Tablet bearing names of these service Brethren was dedicated October 18, 1922 by Right Worshipful Percy W. Witherell, District Deputy Grand Master, and Grand Lodge Officers.

In World War II, the following Brethren were in the service:

William M. Dobson
Ralph B. Wicks
Watson A. Clover
Donald L. Woodside
Samuel W. Grant
Donald F. Nims

Frank J. Hadley, Jr.
Samuel P. Pike, III
Fred G. Husson
Charles C. Park
Frederick H. Stevens

Friendship Lodge has five times been honored by appointments of District Deputy Grand Masters by the Grand Lodge:

Right Worshipful George Clark Hill	1913 - 1914
Right Worshipful Frank W Haynes	1944 1945
Right Worshipful Austin Clifford Woodside	1947 1948
Right Worshipful Ted Noble Morang, Sr.	2008 2009
Right Worshipful Paul Joseph McMahon, Jr.	2022 2023