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JOE ANGELO DIELE 1918-2005

District Grand Master, China, 1980-2002

Necrology

BIOGRAPHY

From Trowel, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 1983:

Representing the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts at the farther-most outpost from Boston is R.W. Joe A. Diele of Tokyo, Japan. His immediate responsibility is Sinim Lodge, once of Shanghai but relocated to Tokyo in 1953. Ancient Landmark and Shanghai Lodges of Shanghai and International Lodge at Peking have been in recess since the People's Republic of China changed its form of government.

Brother Diele is a native of Colorado, born at Primero in 1918, and educated in Morley and Trinidad, CO. While a member of the U.S. Air Force he attended the Japanese language school of the State Department in Arlington, VA; Naganuma Language School, Tokyo, and the University of Maryland. He has held positions of varying responsibility, particularly with assignments at the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the Criminal Investigative Division of the U. S. Army.

He was assistant manager of a large pearl export firm in Kobe, Japan, from 1964 to 1966, later serving as Vice President of the Capehart Corp., Tokyo branch. He is no General Manager of the Design Studio in Tokyo. During World War II he flew fifty-one combat missions in the European Theater, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters.

Brother Diele received his Masonic light in Lodge Hiogo and Osaka No. 498, Kobe, Japan, under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, A. F. & A. M. He affiliated with Sinim Lodge in 1967, serving as Worshipful Master in 1972 and 1973. He is a member of the Scottish Rite Bodies of Tokyo under the Supreme Council, Southern Jurisdiction of the United States. He is the Deputy for Scottish Rite in Japan and Korea.

Coroneted an Honorary Sovereign Grand Inspector General Thirty-Third Degree in 1975, he is now Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Tokyo Masonic Association. He is an Honorary District Grand Marshal, Hong Kong District, Grand Lodge of Scotland; he also holds Honorary Membership in the Grand Lodge of Japan, F. and A. M., and is a member of the Royal Order of Scotland.

Presently residing at 38-22, Ebisu 3-chome, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan 150, R. W. Diele still calls Trinidad, CO, his home town. Three sisters and other close relatives live there.

When M. W. J. Philip Berquist visited Sinim Lodge and the Grand Lodge of Japan in March, 1983, he honored Brother Diele with the presentation of the Joseph Warren Medal, an honor he humbly accepted and which he greatly treasures.

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