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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 (33rd

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