In a message dated 11/14/1999 7:29:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, SCHORRY-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << sonya, this sounds like a Masonic Lodge. the local lodge should have the info you seek. Masonic Lodges do tributes to the death of a member, so he probably was a Mason. mac >> I always wondered what being a Mason was all about. Can you explain this? Thanks. Kerry McCarthy Wood Boston