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Kempsville Lodge No. 196

4869 Princess Anne Road
Virginia Beach, VA 23462

Kempsville Lodge No. 196 - 2007

2007

Right Worshipful Roger Cort

  • Initiated: 8/17/1965, Passed: 9/28/1965, Raised: 11/20/1965 (Port Royal Lodge No. 242, South Carolina)
  • Affiliated, Kempsville Lodge No. 196: 2000
  • Member, Norfolk Scottish Rite: 2002
  • Member, Khedive Shrine: 2002
  • Member, Princess Anne Royal Arch No. 1607: 2002
  • District Masonic Home Ambassador, 56th District: 2003
  • Recipient, James Noah Hillman Award: 2007

More

  • Recipient, Dr. Seymour Jonas Levy Award: 2007
  • Recipient, DeMolay Sponsoring Body: 2007
  • Recipient, DeMolay Legion of Honor: 2008
  • Life Member in Perpetuity: 2009
  • Affiliated, Bayside Lodge No. 218: 2009
  • Worshipful Master, Bayside Lodge No. 218: 2010
  • Served as District Deputy Grand Master, District 56 (elected from BAY218): 2011
  • Member, Order of the Eastern Star Kempsville Chapter No. 173: 2013
  • Trustee, Kempsville Lodge: 2014 - 2022
  • Grand Tiler, Grand Lodge of Virginia: 2014
  • 50 Year Veteran: 2015
  • Entered the Celestial Lodge: 10/31/2022

Lodge Officers

Photo courtesy of Right Worshipful Emmett "Buddy" Pate
left to right
  1. Joe Salt - Marshal
  2. Jonathon Jones - Senior Deacon
  3. Meade McCubbin - Senior Steward
  4. Adam Green - Senior Warden
  5. Scott Foxwell - Musician
  6. Bill Nolan - Secretary
  7. Roger Cort - Worshipful Master
  1. Bill Nelligar - Treasurer
  2. Ron Jacobson - Junior Warden
  3. Ross McLeod - Chaplain
  4. Todd Herbst - Junior Steward
  5. Bill Rawson - Junior Deacon
  6. Chris Jaeger - Tiler

Commemorative Pins

Worshipful Master's Pin
Grand Master's Pin

Right Worshipful Harry Holland

Right Worshipful Harry Holland, Worshipful Master in 1968, returns to the East as Worshipful Master of Staunton River No. 155.

Social Hall Dedicated to the Memory of Frank Mathews

4rd Annual Navy Night - June 26, 2007

Kempsville's own version of a "Chief's Initiation".
left to right
  1. Wes Lampley - Chaplain
  2. Adam Green - Senior Deacon
  3. Rob Worthingtonn - Worshipful Master
  4. Justin Gray - Senior Warden
  1. Quentin Reger - Candidate
  2. Chritopher Bardin - Conductor
  3. Gary Allen - Junior Warden
  4. David Crook - Junior Deacon
Photos courtesy of Right Worshipful Emmett "Buddy" Pate
left to right
  1. Adam Green
  3. Denny Harrison
  4. James Jackson
  5. Joe Salt
  6. Bill Peterson
  7. Ken Chord
  8. Rob Worthington
  10. Patrick Miller
  11. Justin Gray
  1. John Bartleson
  3. Quentin Reger
  5. Steve Sorano
  6. Gary Allen
  7. Bob Lockwood
  8. Wes Lampley
  9. Christopher Bardin
  10. David Crook

Retiring the Aprons

Photo courtesy of Right Worshipful Emmett "Buddy" Pate Most Worshipful Alan Adkins (not shown) presents Right Worshipful Bill Pierce and Right Worshipful George Wallace with their retired aprons.
left to right
  1. Roger Cort - Worshipful Master
  2. Right Worshipful Bill Pierce
  3. Right Worshipful George Wallace

Widows Sons Visit the Masonic Home - September, 2007

Photo courtesy of Worshipful Mike Sheehan
left to right
  1. Brother John Sheehan
  2. Worshipful Loftus Hitchens - Worshipful Master, Berkley Lodge
  3. Right Worshipful Bill Pierce
  4. Worshipful Mike Sheehan
  5. Worshipful Phil Maybery - Worshipful Master, Lynnhaven Lodge No. 220

Visit to Staunton River Lodge

Photo courtesy of Right Worshipful Emmett "Buddy" Pate
Right Worshipful Tom McGowan presents Right Worshipful Harry Holland with his 50 Year Veterans Emblem at Staunton River Lodge No. 155

Obituary

Roger Elliot Cort, age 86, of Virginia Beach, Virginia passed away on Monday, October 31, 2022. He was born in Paterson, New Jersey on October 28, 1936. He was preceded in death by his parents Dr. Elliot and Caroline Cort, a brother Dr. David Cort, a sister Dorothy Billups and a daughter Patricia Fuchs.

Mr. Cort retired as a Senior Chief Petty Officer with the U.S. Navy after twenty-one years of service. He also retired as a superintendent of commercial construction after thirty years. He was a Mason for fifty-seven years and a Past Master of Kempsville and Bayside Masonic Lodges. He also served as Deputy Grand Master of District 56 in Virginia Beach in 2010, and Grand Tiler of The Grand Lodge of Virginia in 2014. He was also a member of Khedive Shrine and Hillbillies Unit, Scottish Rite, Order of the Eastern Star Kempsville #173, American Legion #274 in Maryland, VFW Post #8133, Royal Arch Masons, and Fleet Reserve #166.

Survivors include his loving and devoted wife of forty-eight years, Janet Cort, a son Gregory Cort, a step-daughter Denise R. Claffy; several grandchildren and great grandchildren and nieces and nephews.

The family will receive friends on Sunday, November 6, 2022 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Smith & Williams Funeral Home, Kempsville Chapel.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Monday, November 7, 2022 1:30p.m. at the funeral home. Interment will follow at Woodlawn Memorial Gardens.

Serving as honorary pallbearers will be Wayne Flora, Steve Ridgeway and Leonard Provost and active pallbearers will be Joseph Baki, Ken Church, Chris Anders, Tom Ricks, Mike Gribble and Stephen Claffy.

Lodge Of Sorrow

  • W∴ Wallace Tuck Pittard - 12/19/2006
  • Terry Swaim Mason - 01/14/2007
  • Kenneth Wesley Easter - 03/20/2007
  • Albert Joseph LaLonde - 04/22/2007
  • Charles Randall Taylor - 05/07/2007
  • Syrus Leon VanCampen - 07/07/2007
  • George Constantine Peters - 07/14/2007
  • Stanley Zalman Shipowitz - 07/16/2007
  • Theodore Thomas Sakis, Sr. - 10/22/2007
  • John Lawrence Sheehan - 11/01/2007
  • Marion Woodrow Maddox - 11/23/2007
  • Lilton Junior Davis Jr. - 11/30/2007

Roster Cover

Courtesy of Right Worshipful Emmett "Buddy" Pate

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