Research Lodge of Oregon No. 198

This Saturday following our Stated Meeting there will be a funeral service at 4pm for Right Worshipful Brother Gene Hill at United Church of Christ at 2032 College Way, Forest Grove, OR 97116

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The Research Lodge of Oregon No. 198 will be having our monthly Stated Communication tomorrow, Sat. Oct. 16, at 11am, with an Official Visit from Most Worshipful Bro. Greg Jenkins, Grand Master of Masons in Oregon. 🎩

All Master Masons are invited to attend. We will retire to Goose Hollow Inn for refreshment afterwards.

On Saturday, September 18th, 2021, at 11am the Research Lodge of Oregon No. 198, A.F.&A.M. of Oregon, in collaboration with the Portland Valley Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, will hold its September Stated Meeting and Table Lodge, with special guest Br. C.R. "Chuck" Dunning presenting on the concepts of Masonry as a contemplative practice to improve mental health and spiritual wellbeing.

This event is exclusively for regular Masons of the Entered Apprentice Degree and higher, it is not open to the general public.

Meal admission tickets are limited to 50 Masons and general admission tickets (with no meal) are limited to 20 Masons.
Advance tickets available at http://researchtablelodge2021.eventbrite.com/

On Saturday, September 18th, 2021, at 11am the Research Lodge of Oregon No. 198, A.F.&A.M. of Oregon, in collaboration with the Portland Valley Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, will hold its September Stated Meeting and Table Lodge, with special guest Br. C.R. "Chuck" Dunning presenting on the concepts of Masonry as a contemplative practice to improve mental health and spiritual wellbeing.

This event is exclusively for regular Masons of the Entered Apprentice Degree and higher, it is not open to the general public.

Meal admission tickets are limited to 50 Masons and general admission tickets (with no meal) are limited to 20 Masons.
Advance tickets available at

Research Lodge No. 198 2021 Table Lodge Sept. 18, 2021, Research Lodge of Oregon No. 198 Stated Meeting & Table Lodge

Brethren,
The role of the workman has been called and, one Master Mason, Worshipful Brother John Armstrong, 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 John “Jack” Dana Armstrong was born on December 9th, 1927 in Portland Oregon and passed to the Celestial Lodge on January 15th, 2021. He was Initiated September 12th, 1973, Passed to the Degree of Fellow Craft on October 17th, 1973 and raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason on November 28th, 1973 at Friendship Lodge No. 160 A.F.&A.M. of Oregon. He later affiliated with the Research Lodge of Oregon No. 198 A.F.&A.M. of Oregon and served as Worshipful Master in 1980 and again in 1995. He received the Hiram Award in 2010 from Friendship Lodge No. 160, and again from Research Lodge No. 198 in 2016. Worshipful Bother Jack has contributed greatly to the Craft both through research talks, papers and publications and most notably for his involvement in a group of Masons known as The Innovators. The group was comprised of Masonic Brothers from the Masonic Grand Lodge of Oregon and the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, Inc., through the efforts of these Brothers all working together in the spirit of universal Brotherhood Worshipful Brother Jack as the Master of Research Lodge No. 198 with suitable assistance of a number of Brethren was able to help author, introduce and pass legislation on the floor of Oregon Grand Lodge in June of 1997 to officially recognizes Prince Hall Freemasonry for Masonic Communication in Oregon and as a “vital force in many communities in the United States and other countries”. Worshipful Brother Jack has throughout his life and Masonic journey embodied a strong spirit for equality and our institution’s landmark ideals that all Masons have the right to visit and sit in every regular Lodge and that all men in the sight of God are equal and meet in the Lodge on one common level. His Brethren throughout the Pacific Northwest celebrate his contributions and mourn the loss of a truly Worshipful Brother. 🎩

His obituary can be viewed at https://obits.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregon/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=197595340

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