Tingley's Modern Woodman Lodge of America

OVERHOLTZER, RICHARDSON, NELSON, MCNEIL, NELSON, COOPER, GALLOWAY, DELONG, HAUSZ, GARVER, BLAUER, CHRISTOPHER, DEWITT, JOHNSTON, BUCHANAN, BISCHOFF, MARINER, BUCHANAN, FIERCE, SHEUMAKER, GROSE, BURLEIGH, TAPP, WEEDA, TROXELL

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 9/19/2011 at 01:51:00

Tingley Centennial: 1883 ~1983

The Modern Woodmen Lodge of America
100 Years Old

The Modern Woodmen was organized January 5, 1883, in Lyon, Iowa. It was a Fraternal and Insurance Lodge designed to help their neighbors in sickness and death.

The Tingley Camp 3782 was organized in 1896 and existed for 75 years until 1971 when it was combined with the Mt. Ayr Lodge. The Ellston Lodge was combined with Tingley in 1965. Many Ellston and Tingley members still belong. Wayne A. OVERHOLTZER has been a member 58 years and was clerk of the Tingley Camp for 45 years.

The Modern Woodmen maintained a sanitorium for tuberculosis in Colorado Springs for 38 years and treated 12,000 patients. They still provide scholarships as one of their community service projects and also furnish free prizes for Halloween parties, as Tingley is well aware. They are a very strong Insurance Company and are located in Rock Island, Illinois.

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Tingley Vindicator, June 18, 1908

Modern Woodman Memorial

About 40 members of Tingley Camp 3782 participated in a march to the Tingley cemetery and back Saturday afternoon and the decoration of graves of deceased members of the order buried there took place. The parade was headed by members of the Forester team in uniform under command of C. M. RICHARDSON. John O. NELSON acted as counsul in the ritualistic services. The floral offerings were beautiful though not profuse. The following graves were decorated: J. W. McNEIL, Job NELSON, Calvin COOPER and Virgil GALLOWAY.

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Modern Woodman of America Officers for three decades:

M.W.A. Officers 1914
S. W. DeLONG V.C.
John HAUSZ W.A.
Gordon GARVER E.B.
F. G. HAUSZ Clerk
Wm. BLAUER Escort
W.W. CHRISTOPHER Watchman
Merl DeWITT Sentry
C. D. JOHNSTON Manager
J. A. BUCHANAN Manager
Wm. BISCHOFF Manager

M.W.A. Officers 1924
F. F. MARINER V.C.
P. R. BUCHANAN W.A.
J. E. FIERCE E.B.
Frank HAUSZ Clerk
H. D. SHEUMAKER Escort
W. W. CHRISTOPHER Watchman
George GROSE Sentry
S. W. DeLONG Physican
W. E. BURLEIGH Manager
:Wm. BISCHOFF Manager
Walter TAPP Manager

M.W.A. Officers 1934
Howard WEEDA V.C.
Earl TROXELL W.A.
Perry BUCHANAN E.B.
Wayne A. OVERHOLTZER Clerk
Paul WEEDA Watchman
Russell SHIELDS Sentry
H. D. SHEUMAKER Manager
Roy McDOWELL Manager
John BUCHANAN Manager

SOURCE: Tingley, Iowa Centennial: 1883 - 1983. p. 110. PSI, Inc. Belmond IA. 1983.
Courtesy of Mount Ayr Public Library, September of 2011