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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.

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