Independent Order of Odd Fellows Memorial

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) once held an annual Decoration Day where the society's members paraded to the Odd Fellows Cemetery on Little Mountain to place flowers on the gravesites of former members. At the ceremony June 29, 1919 Brother R. Marshall announced that the lodge intended to set aside a plot and erect a memorial to lodge members who had fallen during the First World War. On July 11, 1920 the memorial was unveiled by Grand Master H. Fooks of Agassiz. The memorial is made of granite on a white marble base, and is the shape of a Celtic cross. The three links on the plinth represent the Order while a helmet and crossed rifles reflect the service in which the eight First World War members of the Order had fallen. Their names were T.E. Caskey, R.A. Henderson, D. Munn, M. McLeod, G. Burch, S.A. Love, W.J. Davis and T.H. Parry. Two names from the Order were added following the Second World War; Lorne Clarence Rideout, R.C.A.F. buried in the Royal Canadian Legion Cemetery, Chilliwack and Harry Kennedy Ford, R.C.A.F. buried in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany.