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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Of
M⸫W⸫ Frank E. Ulin

1969-1970

Most Worshipful Brother Frank Elmer Ulin was born April 13,
1918, in Kamiah, Idaho, and put on immortality December 8,
2006, at East Wenatchee, Washington. He had a humble
beginning on a homestead at Kamiah, Idaho, near Lawyer Creek.
The family of two boys and two girls moved frequently, as
attested to the fact that he attended public schools in Wenatchee,
Tonasket, Colockum, and Port Angeles, where he graduated
from high school in 1938.

Following graduation he held jobs in the State Park Service,
National Park Service, the Washington Paper Mill and the Bremerton Naval Shipyard. From there
he went into the U.S. Army in January 1942.
Following four years of service he started with Puget Sound Power and Light Company in
Wenatchee and then with the Chelan County Public Utility District No. 1. There he remained,
raising through the ranks to management until he retired in 1983 as Superintendent of Substations
and Metering.

Frank’s work with the PUD was interrupted for four years of duty in the Korean Conflict, where
he achieved the rank of Chief Warrant Officer. While stationed at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri,
he met, courted, and married his charming wife Sedalia Irene Hamilton. They were married in the
Army Chapel on October 25, 1943. To this union was born a son and a daughter. Both have reached
adulthood and married, son George (wife, Merilyn) and a daughter Diane (husband, Earl) Wolf.
There are three grandchildren, ten great grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren. His
wife, Sedalia, passed away in East Wenatchee on May 27, 2007.

Our brother’s Masonic journey began when he petitioned Riverside Lodge No. 112, in Wenatchee
and was initiated January 26, 1949; passed on March 16, 1949; and raised a Master Mason on his
31st birthday, April 13, 1949. He served the Lodge in various places and stations, being Worshipful
Master in 1960. In the Grand Lodge he was appointed Grand Lecturer, then a member of the
Representative Expense Committee, and two terms a Deputy of the Grand Master in District No.
21. He was elected Junior Grand Warden in 1966, and progressed through the elected line,
becoming Grand Master in 1969.

He joined the Scottish Rite in 1955, attained the 32nd Degree in 1956, received the rank of Knight
Commander of the Court of Honor in 1969, and was coroneted an Inspector General Honorary