Early Demolay
Patent and Membership Card
Here is an early Demolay Patent
(Membership Certificate) dated October 22, 1928 and signed by Demolay Founder
Frank Land (signed above issued to) that belonged to a young Demolay by the
name of Marion H. Black (who signed his name in the upper left hand margin)
and was a member of Hutchinson Chapter in Hutchinson Kansas. Their
Demolay Chapter was sponsored by the Wichita Consistory No. 2 Ancient Accepted
Scottish Rite. He was born April 7, 1911 to Daniel Black and Vera L
Jeffrey. He was a longtime resident of Hutchinson, went to the University of
Kansas, was a WWII U. S. Navy veteran and passed away on November 25, 1988.
His burial is in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Hutchinson, Kansas.
A special "Thank
you" to Richard A. Curry, whose father, Clarence Harold Speck was a Brother in
the same DeMolay Chapter as his father for the above information about Brother
Marion H. Black.
