Alkire Chapter NO. 10
LOCATION: Main St., Keyser, WV 26726
MAILING ADDRESS: 400 Fountainhead Dr., Keyser, WV 26726
MEETINGS: Second Tuesday at 7:30
DATE OF GRAND VISITATION: April 9, 2011
Officers
| WM | Linda Radcliffe | HC 84, Box 89A, Keyser, WV 26726 |
| WP | Ronald D. Kimble | 400 Fountainhead Dr., Keyser, WV 26726 |
| AM | Grace Staggs | Rt. 6, Box 6612, Keyser, WV 26726 |
| AP | Ronald K. Staggs | Rt. 6, Box 6612, Keyser, WV 26726 |
| Sec | Vicki Kimble | 400 Fountainhead Dr., Keyser, WV 26726 |
| Trea | Michael Maine | 1095 Carolina Ave., Keyser, WV 26726 |
| Cond | Jeanie Alt | P. O. Box 675, Keyser, WV 26726 |
| AC | Rose Ann Maine | 1095 Carolina Ave., Keyser, WV 26726 |
| Chap | Dennis Fleming | 432 1/2 Main St., Keyser, WV 26726 |
| Mar | Wilma Baker | Rt. 4, Box 511, Keyser, WV 26726 |
| Adah | Ashley Parsons | 84 W. Piedmont St., Keyser, WV 26726 |
| Ruth | Phyllis Knott | HC 72, Box 413, Keyser, WV 26726 |
| Esther | Janet Jean Amtower | 265 E. St., Keyser, WV 26726 |
| Mart | Amanda Radcliffe Riggleman | Rt. 4, Box 131A, Keyser, WV 26726 |
| Elect | Suzanne Peck | Rt. 2, Box 512, Ridgeley, WV 26753 |
| War | Lindsay Meadows | 400 Fountainhead Dr., Keyser, WV 26726 |
| Sent | Junior Baker | Rt. 4, Box 511, Keyser, WV 26726 |
Chapter Memership
| Deann Abe, | Genevieve Henry, | Susan Peck, |
| Dallas Adams, P.P. | Margaret Hinkle, | James Pennington, |
| E. Arlene Adams, P.M. | Karen F. Hiser, | Lisa Pennington, |
| Hazel Adams, | Charles Hoffmaster, | Carol Pickard, P.M. |
| Norma Jean Alt, P.M. | Jean Hoffmaster, | Jennings Poland, |
| Janet Jean Amtower, P.M. | Patricia Hovis, | Patricia Poland, |
| Robert Amtower, | Susan Howie, | Douglas Radcliffe, |
| Martha Armstrong, | Beverly James, | Linda Radcliffe, P.M. |
| Mary M. Aronhalt, | Cindy Jenkins, P.M. | Phyllis Radcliffe, P.M. |
| Junior Baker, | Jerry B. Jenkins, P.P. | Sheila Radcliffe, |
| Wilma Baker, | Anita Charlton Kalbaugh, | Susan Radcliffe, |
| Jeannette Beavers, P.G.M. | Ruth Kalo, | Mary Rice, P.M. |
| Margaret Bennear, | C. William Kane, | Amanda Radcliffe Riggleman, |
| Constance Bess, | Arlene Keplinger, | Carolyn Roby, |
| Robert Bess, | Donald J. Kesner, | Patricia Roger, |
| Anastasia Boggs, | Helen Kesner, | A. Craig Rotruck, |
| Ingrid A. Dolly Brash, | April Kimble, | Lucy Rotruck, |
| Beverly C. Bromhal, | Donald D. Kimble, P.P. | William M. Roy, |
| Judy Burgess, | Ronald D. Kimble, P.P. | Joan C. Sharpless, |
| Leon Burgess, | Susan Kimble, P.M. | Steven W. Sharpless, |
| Harry R. Burton, | Vicki Kimble, P.M. | Thomas A. Sharpless, |
| Jean F. Burton, | Julie Kunowsky, | Martha Shaw, |
| Margaret Campbell, | Beverlly Kyle, | Twila Sions, P.M. |
| Betty Cannon, | Sarah Leatherman, P.M. | Brian Smith, |
| Joyce Cannon, | Carol T. Lee, | Leona C. Smith, |
| Georgia Chapman, | Alma Liller, | Norma Smith, |
| Donald Charlton, | Brenda Liller, P.M. | Sheila Smith, |
| Garlendina Charlton, | Margaret Long, | Naomi P. Snider, |
| Eric S. Clark, | Lelia Luzader, | Winona Sowers, |
| Tanya N. Clark, | Michael Maine, P.P. | Arnold Staggs, |
| Claire Cook, | Rose Ann Maine, P.M. | Charles E. Staggs, |
| Timothy Cook, | Pat Malcolm, | Donna Staggs, P.M. |
| Laura Valentine Cox, | Richard L. Malcolm, | Grace Staggs, |
| Mary Lou Daniels, | John Markly, | Ronald K. Staggs, P.P. |
| Linda Demoss, | Linda Markly, | Tina Staggs, |
| Ruby Dilley, P.M. | Amy Tipping Marley, | Sue Staley, |
| Eleanor C. Edward, | Linda Matney, | Monta Stickley, |
| Robert Ellifritz, | Doris Maybury, | Anna Mae Taylor, P.M. |
| Teresa Everett, | James E. Maybury, | Ruthlean Temple, P.M. |
| Lavada H. Fanto, | Freda McCarty, | Shirley J. Thorne, |
| Merle Junior Fanto, | Holly Dawn McCarty, | Maxine S. Thrush, |
| Edward N., Jr. Faulk, | Elaine McCorbie, | Harriette Timbrook, |
| Charles Fleming, | Krista McKenzie, | Doris Tipping, |
| Wilma Fout, | Vivian McKenzie, | Bernice Treutle, P.M. |
| Anna Mae Freaser, | James McKinzie, P.P. | Jack Treutle, |
| Patricia George, P.M. | Genevieve McMillen, | Linda Valentine, P.M. |
| Webster George, P.P. | Lindsay Meadows, | Thomas Valentine, |
| Vicki L. Ginn, | Von Mosser, | Norman Ray Wagoner, |
| Charmaine Gwynn, | Willeda Mosser, | Patricia Wagoner, |
| Barbara Halterman, | Mary Nave, | Twila M. Walters, |
| Elizabeth Harman, P.M. | Sharon Nicol, | J. Robert Wilson, |
| Alfred E. Harris, | Virginia Northcraft, | J. Vance Wilson, P.P. |
| Reba Harris, P.M. | David W. Ours, | Leagwen Wilson, |
| Frances Hartman, | Ann Palmer, | Frances L. Wittman, |
| Marion Hartman, | C. William Pancake, P.P. | Tabeth Woy, |
| Elinor Heath, | Saundra Pancake, P.M. | Georgianna Yost, |
| Karen Bowers Heltzel, | Ashley Kimble Parsons, | Carlin K. Zinn |
Chapter History
The following is from a statement of Mr. Vause Alkire September 26, 1953 about how the chapter got started. “We were five years getting a chapter. So many people were opposed to it. Frank Dixon wrote a personal letter to a judge about getting the chapter started. Had to have permission from the Grand body of Masons before a chapter could be organized. Mr. Keolz was representative to the Grand Lodge that year and wrote to the Grand Master. After the banquet, Mr. Koelz went back for the adjournment of the Grand Lodge at Parkersburg. He was in a hurry to get back home, and under the Good of the Order it slipped through and the Charter was mailed to me.
He, together with his wife, Nan Hosack, Lena Hutson, Carrie McNeill, Ella Parsons, and Ethel Parsons agreed, and I signed all their names on the charter. It had leaked out about the Chapter going to be organized and Miss Emma Carr got a hold of it. She talked to her brother John, Bill Fazenbaker, John Offner and some others who had been opposed to it. We had a meeting to organize. The next question was who would be the first Worthy Matron and Worthy Patron. My recollection is George T. Carskadon was the Worthy Patron and Carrie McNeill Worthy Patron and Mrs. Alkire was Treasurer.
It was named after me they always said, but I always gave my wife the credit for it because she was so enthusiastic and interested over it. Some wanted to name it Queens Point, but we had a cemetery by that name. Then Potomac was mentioned, but we had an insurance company in town by that name. Four or five names mentioned and finally they agreed to call it Alkire. I can see old man Linthicum yet because they wanted to call it Alkire Chapter. He said he never heard of one being called after a man living. I said that Old Colonel Davis is still Living (the Masonic Lodge is named Davis).
Ema Stallings had a big hat with chicken feathers on it and the night we were going to initiate Frank Dixon, Mrs. Spotts was going over her stuff she had to say, and I had on this hat and had in my hand a hatchet with a blue handle and when she opened the door and saw me, she screamed and sat down on a chair and smashed it flat to the floor. The last I heard she had never made her report.
The Chapter was organized on the third floor of the Markwook Building on January 14, 1904. Original dues were ten cents a month, rituals cost seventy-five cents and initiation fee was $1.00”.
Alkire was the tenth chapter to organize in West Virginia and so there now could be a Grand Chapter of West Virginia.
Chapter's Past Grand Officers
Ella Hosack, Grand Trustee — 1907
Mollie R. Broome, Grand Secretary — 1909
Emma J. Carr, Worthy Grand Matron — 1918
Hattie Taylor Thompson, Worthy Grand Matron — 1930
Oscar A. Cosner, Grand Sentinel — 1943
Oscar A. Cosner, Associate Grand Patron — 1944
Evelyn Pownell, Grand Martha — 1958
Evelyin R. Pownell, Worthy Grand Matron — 1962
Eileen Stafford, Grand Ruth — 1973
Jeannette Heckman, Grand Organist — 1983
Ron Staggs, Grand Chaplain — 1985
Jeannette S. Heckman, Worthy Grand Matron — 1990
Saundra Pancake, Grand Esther — 1994
Chapter's Past Grand Representatives
Carrie B. McNeill Wisconsin 1904-1909
Ella T. Parsons Arizona 1904-1909
Hattie Lee District Of Columbia 1907-1909
Emma J. Carr Iowa 1908-1911
Mollie R. Broome Pennsylvania 1909-1912
Emma J. Carr Ohio 1913-1922
Jessie Burke Minnesota 1930-1933
Lena Hutson Florida 1940-193
Beulah Ward Louisiana 1944-1947
Nellie M. Hott Idaho 1953-1956
Tabitha Watson Massachusetts 1957-1960
Otie Neville Pennsylvania 1962-196
Josie I. Smith New Brunswick 1965-1968
Carol Pickard Pennsylvania 1974-1977
Eileen Stafford Colorado 1976-1979
Clara Kauffman Georgia 1980-1982
Ann Taylor Rhode Island 1982-1984
Grace Staggs Arkansas 1984-1986
Janet Amtower Nova Scotia & P. E. Island 1986-1988
Arlene Adams Vermont 1990-1992
Billy Pancake Wyoming 1993-1995
Patricia George Rhode Island 1996-1998
Maine Michael Massachusetts 2000-2002
Saundra Pancake Iowa 2003-2005
Rose Ann Maine Wisconsin 2005-2007
Dallas Sites Wisconsin 2008-2009