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CARROLL B. FRENCH 1898-1963
Deputy Grand Master, 1962
MEMORIAL
From Proceedings, Page 1963-138:
Right Worshipful Carroll Brackett French, Junior Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, died suddenly at his home in Lynn, Massachusetts, on Sunday, May 5, 1963, in his sixty-fifth year.
Brother French was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, November 16, 1898, the son of Elmer Eddy and Mary Celia (Bean) French. He attended the Lynn Public Schools and graduated from Lynn Classical High School as valedictorian of his class. His education was continued at Tufts University, where he was Class Orator and director of Tufts Chorus and Glee Club in 1920-21, graduating in 1921 with a B.S. degree in Economics. While at Tufts, he became a member of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity and served as Worthy Keeper of Annals. In 1917, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and became a First Sergeant of Infantry receiving his honorable discharge in 1918 as a veteran of World War I.
In l921 Brother French entered the employ of the W. S. Quimby Company (now the LaTouraine Coffee Company) as manager of credits and collections, a position he held for over forty years. Active in credit work throughout the New England area, he had for many years served as a director of the New England Association of Credit Executive and was a corporator of the Boston Penny Savings Bank.
He married Ruth Washburn Jenkins on November 28, 1925, who survives him, together with a son, Carroll Bean French; a daughter, Betty Ruth French; a grandson, Keith Allan French, and a granddaughter, Cynthia Ruth French. He is also survived by a brother, Elmer Clayton French, and a sister, Mrs. James T. Brown.
Brother French was a member of the First Church of Christ Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts. In former years he served as soloist and Sunday School teacher in the First Church of Christ Scientist in Lynn, Massachusetts.
He was raised a Master Mason in Golden Fleece Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Lynn, on July 2, 1929, and was its Worshipful Master in 1942-43. He has been its Treasurer since 1949. He was exalted in Sutton Royal Arch Chapter of Lynn in March 1957; greeted in Zebulun Council, R. & S. M., of Lynn, in June 1957 and knighted in St. Bernard Commandery No. 12 at Boston, Massachusetts, in January 1958. He was District Deputy Grand Master of the Lynn Eighth Masonic District in 1955-56 and Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in 1962. He was awarded the Henry Price Medal for distinguished service in March, 1962 by the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. He was Chairman of the Committees on Library and Museum.
Other Masonic affiliations include: Member of Aleppo Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S.; member of Massachusetts College Societas Rosicruciana; Past President North Shore Past Masters' Association; and Grand Representative of the Grand Lodge of South Australia near the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts.
In Scottish Rite, Brother French became a member of the four bodies in the Valley of Boston in 1943, serving as Sovereign Prince of Giles Fonda Yates Council of Princes of Jerusalem from 1956 to 1959. He was created a Sovereign Grand Inspector General, 33°, Honorary Member of the Supreme Council at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 24, 7958. On September 27, 1962, he was crowned an Active Member of the Supreme Council at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Funeral services were conducted at the Parker Memorial in Lynn by Mrs. Muriel L. Irish, Christian Science Reader, on Tuesday, May 7th, at 2.00 p.m. Interment was in Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn. The services were attended by a host of friends and Masonic dignitaries. Grand Lodge was represented by its Acting Grand Master, R.W. Donald W. Vose. Truly it can be said that here was a man cut down "in the midst of his usefulness".
Fraternally submitted,
Laurence E. Eaton
Fred W. Mellon
Raymond E. Smith
Committee
