Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

IN MEMORIAM

( Tribute to the Memory of Wm. S. Voris deceased )
Whereas, we are again reminded that while we are in the midst of life we are in the midst of death. Again has the messenger visited our Lodge and Chapters and taken from our midst our beloved and honored Brother and Companion, William Sickles Voris, who departed this life at his home in Blackwell, Okla., April 16, 1907, in his 66th year.
His good deeds and kind actions are like an open book before us and are living monuments of good citizenship and are very precious pages indeed, and justly command the praise of his Companions, brothers and sisters. To know him was to love him and those who knew him best loved him most.
He had a Masonic trust, a Masonic faith and a Masonic hope; the Holy Bible was the rule and guide of his faith and the desire of his heart was rooted in the foundation principles of eternal truth, and he fully recognized the great fundamental truth that death does not end all, but is the way to a fuller life in the immortality of the soul.
Therefore, to him the valley was not gloomy; the shadows were not dark, and when his mortal feet gained the brink, the river was not wide, nor deep., nor turbid , nor its waters cold. Leaving his brothers, sisters and companions with sad hearts, he passed safely over and triumphantly entered through the gate into the Eternal City to receive the commendation of Him who said: “To eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saying he that receiveth it.”
Resolved, That we extend our sincere sympathy to the bereaved once, and that a copy of these resolutions be presented to the family and spread upon the records of the Lodge and Chapter.
Committees: J. R. Tate,
J. W. Morse,
J. H. Crawford.
Blackwell Chapter, No. 43, R. A. M.
B. D. Ashbrook,
C. R. Harter,
J. W. Morse
Chicaskia Lodge, No. 34, A. F. & A. M.
Clara A. Wymer,
Mayme Butcher,
L. P. Kraus.
Chicaskia Chapter, No. 14, O. E. S.