My Brethren, the Roll of Workmen Has Been Called…

Brethren,
The roll of the workmen has been called, and one Master Mason, Illustrious Brother Noel Keister, 33°, Inspector General Honorary, has not answered to his name. He has laid down the working tools of life and with them has left that mortal part for which he no longer has use. His labors here below have taught him to divest his heart and conscience of the vices and superfluity of life, thereby fitting his mind as a living stone for that spiritual building, that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Strengthened in his labors here by faith in God, and confident of expectation of immortality, he has been granted admission to the Celestial Lodge above. His Brethren mourn the passing of a great man and Mason.

Noel Kerry Keister (Electrical Estimator) was born on February 24, 1929 in Brainerd, Minnesota; he passed to the Celestial Lodge in Forest Grove on November 9th, 2018, at the age of 89. He was a member of Klamath Lodge #77 in Klamath Falls, affiliated with Beaverton Lodge #100 in Beaverton and Sherwood-Midday Lodge #164 in Sherwood. He was a Nobel of the Al Kader Shrine Temple in Oregon. In the Scottish Rite Brother Noel received the 32° on May 14, 1983 in the Portland Valley Temple, was made a Knight Commander of the Court of Honor October 18, 1993; Honored on November 13, 1993, and he was Coroneted on November 20, 1999 as an Honorary Inspector General 33° of the Supreme Council of the A.&A. Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, S.J., U.S.A.