Monthly Digest
Published in the interest of
DeSoto Lodge No. 299
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Volume 144 |
March 2006 |
Issue 3 |
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Worshipful Master |
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Secretary |
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James David Pickens (hm) 901.372.3719 |
Lodge901.529.4025 |
Elbert E. Martz, PM901.837.4579 (hm) |
A MESSAGE FROM…
OUR WORSHIPFUL MASTER…
I hope this news letter finds each of you and your family doing well. Spring is just around the corner and I can hardly wait. While planning your spring planting put some time in your schedule to come down to the lodge for stated meeting and degree work. We have a great time in our fellowship at the monthly dinner that Brother Merrell and his wife plan for us.
If you missed our Valentine’s Dinner, you missed a great time. We had some great entertainment and a few people even danced while the band was playing. Start making plans to attend our next function. You will have a great time enjoying the fellowship with each other and make some new friends.
I would like to extend a call to all the police officers that are members of this lodge to return and get up to speed in the degree work so we could again have a Police Degree team. That is one of my goals this year. Also anyone wishes to give a little time to help me with this goal.
I am looking forward to seeing each of you next month.
Fraternally,
Your Worshipful Master,
Jim Pickens, WM
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Birthdays
Happy Birthday to the following brothers:
William Forest Mabry 03/02 Gregory Lynn Howard 03/03 John Thomas Moyes 03/03 James Leon Nichols, Sr., P.M. 03/05 Ralph Horace Brown 03/07 John Ronald Walker 03/07 James Franklin Gibson, Jr. 03/08 William Donald Rose 03/09 Harold Lee Herl, P.M. 03/11 James Preston Whitt 03/11 Calvin Hurst Youngblood 03/14 Eugene Robert Johnston 03/15 Daniel Lamar Gandy 03/17 Melvin Malcom Jerkins 03/17 Donnie Ray Maxwell 03/17 Jimmy Lloyd Tuck 03/18 James Allen Mills 03/19 Donald Paul Spahr 03/19 Robert Russell Crossno, P.M. 03/20 Earl Woodroe Allen 03/22 Milton Edward Armstrong, Jr., P.M. 03/22 Elwood Lee Qualls 03/24 William Edward Jackson 03/25 James David Pickens, Jr., W.M. 03/25 James Clark Ray 03/25 Charles Arthur William 03/26 Elvin Ladell Breland 03/27
If you had a birthday and I missed it, Please let me know and I will make a correction to my records.
I want to apologize to the members who had birthdays in February. Do to a computer problem the birthdays were not reported. We wish all of you a belated Happy Birthday! |
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From the Secretary’s Desk
The News Letter is now back on the web site. Be sure to go to Desotolodge.com and check it out.
Just a couple of pictures from the Valentine’s Dinner. If you missed it, you missed a good time.
. Wm. Jim Pickens presents the Grand Prize to Julie, wife of P.M. Dickie Ballard, who won the drawing at the Valentine’s Dinner.
Bro. Byron Wilkinson and his wife, Marguerite, dancing at the Valentine’s Dinner.
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Sick and Visitation
Bro. Richard Martz, P.M. is home. Bro. Martz is being treated for cancer. Bro. Mickey Harber’s daughter, Laura Worthington, is home recovering from surgery.
Please keep these brothers and their families in your prayers. We know there are others that are ill and we do not know about. If you know about a Brother or a family member that is sick please contact us.
If you know of anyone sick, please contact our Chaplin, Bro. B. W. Malone, P.M. at 358-3789.
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Winners of Drawings
Bro. Ed Morrison’s name was drawn for the $50.00 monthly prize. Bro. Morrison was not present to receive the money therefore $50.00 will be deposited into the H.C. “Pappy” Warner Memorial Fund. Ms. Beverly Ray won the $50.00 gift certificate to Wal-Mart. Ms. Nancy Merrell and Bro. Jim Pickens won the consolation prizes.
Congratulations
Karen Carver, wife of P.M. Ryan Carver, gave birth to a baby girl. Congratulations to them. |