BIOGRAPHIES
Charles Brent Stewart
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orn in 1960 in Columbia, Missouri, RWB Brent Stewart graduated from the UMC School of Law in 1987. He was the Staff Director of the Missouri Public Service Commission, in private law practice, for sixteen years and currently is counsel for the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives. He married his wife Kris in 1981 at the Newman Center. He was raised in 1985 in Twilight Lodge #114, was Master in 199899, and also is a member of Acacia Lodge #602 and Fayette-Howard Lodge #4. He is a past President of the Masonic Children’s Foundation, Vice President of the Board of the Masonic Home, and Marshal of the Missouri Lodge of Research. He joined the York Rite in 1988, is a KYCH, and is a member of Jurisprudence Committees of the Grand York Rite Bodies. He was the SGIG Personal Representative in the Columbia Valley Scottish Rite and received the 33° in 2003. He received the Order of the Purple Cross,
Richard L. Smith
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Senior Grand Warden
is Past Governor of YR College #188, Past Sovereign Master of AMD Council #392, and a member of the OES, Knight Masons, Royal Order of Scotland, MSRICF, St. Thomas of Acon, Order of Athelstan, Red Cross of Constantine, Yeomen of York, Order of High Priesthood, Order of the Silver Trowel, Past Commander's Association, SRRS, Philalethes Society, Shrine, and Grotto. He also is a past P.E.R. and Trustee of the Elks, Secretary of the Mo 10-33 Benevolent Fund, and has served on the Boards of several charitable organizations.
Junior Grand Warden
ight Worshipful Brother Richard L. Smith grew up St. Louis and received his BS Degree from Washington University there. He and his wife, June have a daughter, Holly and a son, Benjamin, also a Missouri Master Mason. RWB Smith is a Residential Loan Officer with a St. Louis area bank, and is the Business Development Officer at that bank's Pacific, Missouri Branch. He served in the Navy aboard an Aircraft Car-
rier at Pensacola Naval Air Station as well as in the Panama Canal Zone, where he joined the Order of DeMolay. In 2005, he was the recipient of the Truman Medallion. He served as Master of Rose Hill Lodge #550, Master of the Missouri Lodge of Research, the Board of Directors of the Masonic Home of Missouri, and Associate Guardian Bethel #4 of Job’s Daughters. He is Past Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, the Committee on Chartered Lodges, the Committee on Masonic Education and Past President of the Mid-West Conference on Masonic Education. RWB Smith is affiliated with the Scottish Rite Valley of St. Louis (33°), Moolah Shrine, National Sojourners and Hero’s of ‘76, Order of Eastern Star, and the Grand Master's Consecration Breakfast Committee in St. Louis.
The Masonic Home of Missouri and Mt. Zion Lodge # 327 at West Plains contributed $2000 to the West Plains R-7-Bridges program through the Creating-A-Partnership effort. The contribution helped provide food, clothing, school supplies, hygiene items and shoes for the needy children in our community. Shown are, front row, left to right: Chase Smith, Junior Warden; Bob Sargent, Treasurer; Michael Topliff, Worshipful Master; Cyndi Wright, coordinator for West Plains R-7-Bridges; Rhonda Singletary. Second row: Lenny Eagleman, Senior Warden; E. Wayne Calhoun, District Deputy Grand Master of the 42nd Masonic District; Owen Lunn; Jerry Marsh, Secretary.
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