Brethren,
The role of the workman has been called and, one Master Mason, Brother Earl D. Swenson, 32°, KCCH, 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.
Worshipful Brother Earl David Swenson, 32°, Knight Commander of the Court of Honour, was born on March 9th, 1923 in Boone, Iowa and passed to the Celestial Lodge in his 97th year on August 26th, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. He served in the United States Military and was Raised a Master Mason in at the age of 22 and maintained active membership for 75 years in the Fraternity. He was a member of Parkrose Masonic Lodge No. 179 A.F. & A.M. of Oregon where he served as Worshipful Master, and he was also a member of East Gate Lodge No. 155, and Beaverton Lodge No. 100. He received the Scottish Rite degrees on May 21st, 2005 in the Portland Valley in the Orient of Oregon; he was a Knight of Saint Andrew and invested as a Knight Commander of the Court of Honour on November 2nd, 2013. He was also a Noble member of the Al Kader Shrine Temple in Wilsonville, Oregon. Brother Earl had a smile and energy that could brighten any room, he will be truly missed. Funeral and memorial arrangements are unknown at this time.