Brethren, please join me in remembering the life and work of Worshipful Brother Edwin Usiak. Worshipful Brother Usiak is a Past Master of Dover Lodge for the year 1999. We have just received word that Worshipful Brother Usiak passed to the Celestial Lodge Above on December 21st 2008.

Services will be held tonight for Worshipful Brother Usiak at 8:00pm at Zeis-McGreevy Funeral Home, 16105 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood Ohio.

Solemn strikes the funeral chime,
Notes of our departing time;
As we journey here below.
Through a pilgrimage of woe!

Mortals, now indulge a tear,
For mortality is here!
See how wide her trophies wave
O’er the slumbers of the grave!

Here another guest we bring,
Seraphs of celestial wing,
To our funeral altar come,
Waft this friend and brother home.

Lord of all! Below – above –
Fill our hearts with truth and love;
When dissolves our earthly tie,
Take us to Thy Lodge on high.

Safe Travels, Worshipful Brother. We will meet again.