Buckles Blog: Rosemont Cemetery #2

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Chic Silber said...: Is that the American Legion emblem; 19 May, 2010 10:01
Hal Guyon said...: Scottish Rite of the Free Masons Chic. That`s how my Dad got to meet him was through a Free Masons meeting somewhere here in the state.; 19 May, 2010 11:27
Buckles said...: Masonic 32nd Degree.; 19 May, 2010 11:29
Chic Silber said...: Thanks

Isn't that the level one must

attain to join the Shriners; 19 May, 2010 12:10
Buckles said...: Yes it is but you can also become a Shriner by means of another Masonic Body, the York Rite or Order of Knights Templar, to which my father and I both traveled.
Yet I once heard him say, the Shrine should come just before Entered Apprentice rather than after Knights Templar.; 19 May, 2010 13:53
Hal Guyon said...: Didn`t know you were a fellow Masonic Brother Buckles. I went Scottish Rite. My Dad had both Scottish and York Rites, he was also a 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Mason. Now days you only have to be a Blue Lodge member to join the Shrine, I guess it`s the same there also.; 19 May, 2010 14:01
Buckles said...: My father was a Missouri Mason having received his instructions from a local barber in Lancaster.
He would walk up to his shop from Hall's place and wait patiently for non-Masonic customers to leave in order to be taught his lectures.
Later at the Louisville Quarters and under the sponsorship of Zack Terrell, he received his Scottish Rite degree with Col. Harry Thomas sitting in the East.; 19 May, 2010 14:23

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