Veterans

Mill Valley Lodge
Veterans

Members of Mill Valley Lodge No. 356, F & AM have not failed to answer our country's call to arms in times of need. All members of Mill Valley Lodge No. 356 are proud of the service that these brothers rendered on behalf of our nation. These Honor Rolls are offered to the community so that our neighbors in Mill Valley and our greater world community can also learn and remember what the members of Mill Valley Lodge No. 356 will not forget.

Honor Roll of Brethren who Served in World War I

September 22, A.L. 5919 (1919) at a Special Meeting, the Lodge was opened on the Third Degree of Masonry for the purpose of dedicating a bronze tablet to the members of this Lodge who served their country in the Army or Navy during the war of 1917-1918. The Secretary read the names of the forty-two members who had lately been in the Country's service during the World War as follows: Bro….

Robert William Barr
Dorrence Beck
Robert Belshaw
Grover Cleveland Boyd
Carl F. Brunotte
Frederick Alexander Burden
James Andrew Carlile
Franklyn Broughton Conroy
Matthew Demmer
John Franklin Ellis
Adolph Gustof Falk
Richard Marion Finn
George Newton Folker, Jr.
Herbert Penn Folker
Henry Guth
Homer Byron Hyde
Robert Jacob, Jr.
Harold Sidney Johnson
Olin Ransellar Kelsey
Melvin Harvey Klyce
Julius Kover
Lee Lawrence Lane
Ralph Lee Lockwood
Ivar Wilhelm Lundqvist
George Robert Mantlo
Ross Reed McLeod
Charles John McQuillan
Lester Theodore Olmstead
Roy E. Patterson
Nathan Podhoretz
Fred. Alfred Roemer
John Nelson Ross
James George Saxton, Jr.
Albert Victor Shaw
Zenas Abner Sherwin
Francis Joseph Sommer
Oscar Park Stowe
Clarence Wilber Thomas
Lon Mack Turpin
Lionel Wachs
Jesse Warren Wagner
Roy Culver Ward

By order of the Worshipful Master, F.A. Burden, the Flag of our Country was escorted to the East with appropriate ceremonies, them members present singing the Star Spangled Banner. The Service Flag was then retired by Past Master Harvey A. Klyce. Bro. A.J. Treat 33° then delivered the dedication oration, which was followed by instrumental and vocal selections.

The foregoing list does not include the many veterans of World War I who joined Freemasonry after the cessation of hostilities.

Honor Roll of Brethren who Served in World War II

It is a distinct pleasure to present for your admiration and cooperation a list of our brothers who have honorably and faithfully served in the Armed Forces.

Francis W. Barrington
Joseph A.C. Becker
A.W. Bloomquist
George W. Boles
Kenneth G. Bowman
Charles R. Brockhoff
Donald L. Burbeck
Alton E. Case
Clarence E. Clapp
William F. Dreyer, Jr.
James E. Egger
Cassius W. Gilliam
William A. Hamilton
Edwin H. Hildebrand
Donald H. Ingermann
Homer E. Ingermann
Harold S. Johnson
Julius C. Katterfield
Charles S. Lemos
Wallace Marshall
Jack Mathews
Almy C. Maynard
Charles J. McQuillan
Dwight L. Merriman
Silas N. Parks
Gordon V. Pingree
James E. Powell
Laurence H. Rubke
Benton W. Rutherford
H.E. Rutherford, Jr.
Robert G. Sandstrom
Gilbert T. Saunders
Frank J. Schaal
William G. Seaver
Elliott W. Seymour
Richard V. Sloan
Leonard H. Spalding
Rupert E. Starr
George M. Stutzman
Martin H. Seaver
Lorne A. Tanner
John R. Thompson, Jr.
Daniel W. Thomsen
Robert W. Walker
Tevis O. Walker

The foregoing list does not include the many veterans of World War II who joined Freemasonry after the cessation of hostilities.

Honor Roll of Brethren who Served in the Armed Forces during the Korean War

Richard E. Alexander
Francis W. Barrington
Alton E. Case
Eldon G. Cooley
Donald L. Egger
James B. Howard
Herbert J. Huffman
Charles A. Keagy
Karl E. Katlas
Carl J. Lude
George Morrison
Robert G. Sandstrom
Gilbert T. Saunders
Frank J. Schall
John L. Semorile
Jack Spooner
John R. Thompson
Robert Walker
Frederick J. Welch
Norman B. Young

The foregoing list does not include the many veterans of the Korean War who joined Freemasonry after the cessation of hostilities.

Honor Roll of Brethren who Served in the Armed Forces during the Vietnam War

Francis W. Barrington

The foregoing list does not include the veterans of the Vietnam War who joined Freemasonry after the cessation of hostilities.

Memorial Day tribute to those who did not return:

As we walk among the graves of our comrades today and reverently bow head and knee over the lowly hillock, and bedeck with flowers and bedew with tears the turf which grows nowhere else so green, we can feel the touch of unseen hands, we hear the voices none others hear, we are enchanted – overawed. We are alone, yet in the innumerable company of silent men, as if dwelling among the tombs. The old days come back to us; they are all young men, leaping, laughing, marching, singing, shouting and fighting. Now all is still. We can hear the rustle of the old flag as it floats in the breezes today, so it rustled and rolled above us over a third of a century ago; as the cannon and musketry of the battle then accentuated its rhythmic flow and flash of war as it glanced across its glorious folds. The stars glow as brightly in its beautiful blue, its stripes stretch out in its graceful, billowy, restless length as grandly still; but the young hearts that then beat below all its majestic motion and music, are now still in the grave, and the undersong of its graceful and melodious roll is a requiem of the glorious dead who fell "asleep by all their country’s wishes blessed." God of battles, why should not these young men be with us today? Why should they not enjoy the music of the Union? For if we measure time by the results achieved by them, and of which they were not permitted to live and see the full fruition, we know that these heroes helped to force the hands that marked the progress of civilization full a century ahead. Why should they not be here? Why should not the sowers of this mighty breadth of blessings be among those who garner up the sheaves in the red harvest of war? Enough, so God willed it; and the bright, glorious flag floats on for all and over all, and on this sacred Memorial Day, let us bless God for our country, its constitution and its glorious flag, founded by our sires, and saved by the valor and the heroism of the boys in blue.