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for Freedom, County Chairman for Civil Defense, Chairman of the County Planning Commission,
President of the Okanogan Chamber of Commerce, Trustee of the Omak Memorial Hospital, and Trustee
of his Presbyterian Church.

He has been equally active in Freemasonry in which service he has been most loyal. His Masonic
affiliations are almost all-inclusive. He was Initiated, Passed, and Raised in Tonasket Lodge No. 220, in
1928. He transferred his membership to Okanogan Lodge No. 169, in 1932 and served as Master in 1936.
He was District Deputy under Most Worshipful Brothers Charles. P. Kirtland, John A. Emigh and
Matthew W. Hill.

He served on the Grand Lodge Jurisprudence Committee for three years, and on the Grievance and
Appeals Committee for two years. He was Grand Orator in 1950. He was elected as Junior Grand Warden
at the 1953 Communication at Spokane and served successively as Senior Grand Warden, Deputy Grand
Master and Installed as Grand Master at the 1956 Grand Lodge Communication at Kennewick – the first
to be elected from Okanogan County.

Additional Masonic and concordant memberships include Walter F. Meier Lodge of Research No. 281,
Wenatchee Consistory Scottish Rite; Okanogan Chapter No. 41, Royal Arch Masons; Royal and Select
Masters; Chas. B. Reed Council, No. 14, Wenatchee; Okanogan Valley Commandary, Knights Templar;
El Katif Temple (Shrine), Spokane; The National Sojourners and St. Raphael Conclave, Red Cross of
Constantine, Spokane.

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Our Past Grand Master, in apparent good health, died suddenly at home on the 9 day of November in
1959. As an enduring legacy, Most Worshipful Herbert Davis and his wife, Elizabeth, left a trust fund of
$300,000 to Okanogan Lodge No. 169 with the stipulation that the money generated through interest and
investments be used “for the benefit of the youth of Okanogan County and other charitable purposes.” In
addition, a grant program has been established through the fund that will provide money for “imaginative
projects and programs” operated by non-profit organizations that benefit the county’s citizens.

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