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Two days before the passing of our Most Worshipful Brother, Grand Master McCormack visited
with him. He shared this conversation in his report to the Craft:

He then looked the picture of health, and, while I offered him words of encouragement, he said: "I
am not afraid. I am not dismayed. I am ready when the call comes." But turning to his life-long
partner, his devoted wife, he said: "Grand Master, she is all I care to live for." He retired to rest
the evening of the following day, "like one who wraps his martial cloak around him and lies down
to pleasant dreams," On the morning of September 5, 1922, when she whom he wanted to live for
tried to awaken him, the great spirit of him we loved so well had taken its flight and left the form
by which we knew him in peaceful repose.

To Most Worshipful Brother Witherspoon, Masonry was service. In the early days of Spokane, no
one was more active in seeking out the sick and distressed. He was not satisfied to let a day go by
without having visited the sick, relieved the needy, or in some way to practice as well as preach
the sublime principles of our Order

It can well be said of him that his ambition was to raise a smile on the cheek of sorrow. The
situation of every one, however wretched, he made his own; he wept with those who wept and
rejoiced with those who rejoice. He bade not the naked go and be clothed, nor the hungry be filled,
but the same impulse that moved his heart in the unhappy orphan's favor directed his hand to relief.