MAGLALewis
ALVAN R. LEWIS
Senior Grand Warden, 1927
MEMORIAL
From Proceedings, Page 1930-69:
R.W. Brother Lewis was born in Stirling May 25, 1856 and died after a long illness at the home of his son, Alvan R. Lewis, Jr., in Easthampton January 30, 1930.
After graduation from school and college Brother Lewis entered the teaching profession and remained in it until he retired in 1926 at the age of seventy. For thirty-four years preceding his retirement he was a Superintendent of Schools.
Brother Lewis took his Masonic degrees in John Warren Lodge, of Hopkinton, in 1894, and was its Worshipful Master in 1899 and 1900. He joined Vernon Lodge, of Belchertown, in 1908 and was its Worshipful Master in 1919 and 1920. IIe was District Deputy Grand Master for the Nineteenth Masonic District in 1922 and 1923 by appointment of M.W. Arthur D. Prince and M. W. Dudley H. Ferrell. He was Senior Grand. Warden in 1927.
Brother Lewis was always a good citizen and was recognized and honored as such. For ten years he was Moderator of the Town Meetings of Belchertown.
Deeply religious in his nature, he was an active Sunday School worker in,his earlier years and later a Deacon in the Congregational church at Belchertown and one of the Trustees of the parish. His broad human sympathies led him to take a prominent part in the activities of the Grange and the Eastern Star.
He was held in the deepest love and esteem by ail who knew him. I{is townsmen showed their respect by closing their places of business during his funeral services. His service as a Grand Warden and permanent member of the Grand Lodge was not active as he was not well at the time of his election and the increasing severity of his illness soon incapacitated him. Those who came to know him, however, recognized a rare spirit whom it was a pleasure and a benefit to have met.
From Proceedings, Page 1930-187:
