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Monroe
City Rebekah Lodge No. 156 was first instituted on April 4,
1895 in the same building now occupied by the I. 0. 0. F. and
Rebekah lodges. Thirty-four charter members formed the
organization. Among the members were Mrs. W. L. Ely, Mrs. T.
P. Middleton, Mrs. W. H. Wilson,
Miss Value Utterback, Mrs. Joseph Kincaid and Mrs. Robert M.
Meriwether. The group surrendered their charter after a few
years and on March 2, 1909, a new chapter No. 534, was
instituted under the direction of Mrs. Emma Cain of Hannibal,
district deputy and her staff.
Elective
officers were: Mrs. 0. R. Emerson, noble grand; Mrs. W. J.
Rouse, vice grand; Mabel Yowell. recording secretary; Lena
Wunch, financial secretary: and
Mrs. H. J. Kent, treasurer. Charter members included:
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Alzona
Shepherd
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Hallie
Stevenson
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Julia
Leake
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Gilliam |
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Anne
Youell
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Mary
Clark
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Julia
Carpenter
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Daisy
Strean
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Eva
Lawson
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Bertha
Dierks
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Laura
Emerson
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Maud
Cooksey
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Minnie
Hampton
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Sina
McNary
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Gussie
Cozad
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Alice
Meriwether
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D.
C. Clark
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Laura
Mull
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Elizabeth
Tompkins
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Maggie
Greeves
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Naomi
Scobee
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Dora
Shafer
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Katherine
Rouse
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W.
J. Rouse
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C.
L. Carpenter
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Eva
Brown
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0.
W. Tompkins
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C.
C. Shafer
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Harry
Strean
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C.
F. Dierks
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Will
Wadsworth
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J.
Shepherd
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J.
J. Brown
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Robert
M. Meriwether
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R.
L. Armstrong
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J.
T. Greeves
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Arch
Owen
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C.
U. Hampton
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J.
C. Cozad
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Mrs.
W. L. Ely served as first noble grand of the 1895 lodge, Mrs.
T. P. Middleton, vice grand, and Miss Value Utterback,
secretary. The only living charter members of the 1909 lodge
are Miss Daisy Strean, and Mrs. Lena Wunch Brown. Mrs. W. H.
Wilson, a member the 1895 lodge and later a member of the
lodge instituted in 1909, is the oldest living Rebekah. Miss
Daisy Strean belonged to the first lodge but was not a charter
member.
At
the present time the membership of the lodge is 113.
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