Berthoud Weekly Surveyor July 11, 2013 Page 5 The historical society and Mark French are interested in obtaining and copying old photos from Berthoud’s past. Please contact Mark at 532-2147 if you have any photos you would like to share.
A LOOK AT BERTHOUD
Lodges important to early Berthoudites S ecret societies and fraternal orders played a major role in the lives of early Berthoud residents. The first such organization to be formed in the community, the International Order of Good Templars (I.O.G.T.) was perfected in the winter of 1885-86, a little over a year after the Berthoud settlement was moved from its original location on the Little Thompson river bottom to Surveyor its present-day Columnist site. Unlike many other secret societies of that era, membership in the Good Templars was open to women as well as men. Since Berthoud was only a handMark ful of buildFrench ings when the Good Templar lodge was formed, the society met at the Mars Hill school house one mile
north of town. Berthoud Lodge No. 37 of International Order of Good Templars disbanded in 1898. Berthoud’s other early lodge organizations were the Masons and the Odd Fellows. Berthoud Lodge No. 83 of Free and Accepted Masons was organized on May 10, 1890. Charter members included Harvey J. Parrish, who later founded Johnstown, and F. Irving Davis, who was Berthoud’s first mayor. The Masons met in the upstairs room of the Munson & Hubbell building at the southwest corner of Third Street and Massachusetts Avenue, since that room was the only one in town that was large enough to qualify as a “hall.” R.M. Hubbell, who was a member of the lodge, also owned the building. In 1906 the Masons built a lodge hall at the southeast corner of Fourth Street and Massachusetts Avenue. Berthoud Odd Fellow Lodge No. 99 was granted its charter on Feb. 27, 1892. Among the charter members were Berthoud town founder Peter Turner and early United Brethren preacher W.H. McCormick. Like the Masons, the Odd Fellows met in
OBITUARIES
employed businessman serving his comogy. Jack enjoyed helping others and munity with a wide range of spending time with his wife, offerings from retail shops, children and grandchildren. donut/coffee shops, tax prepaJack departed this life rations and other financial quietly in his home on June services. He also served on the 26, 2013. He is survived by Berthoud Town Board, was a his beautiful loving wife counselor for the Life Choices Yvonne Dawdy; son Denis Pregnancy Center, and was a Dawdy; son and daughtermember of American Legion in-law, Michael and Ann Post #32 and Moose Lodge Dawdy; son and daughter#484. Jack was also a faithful in-law, David and Michelle church supporter who truly Dawdy; grandchildren, Gino loved and honored the Lord by Dawdy; Joey Walker-Dawdy; being a pastor and an elder of Andrew and Eric Dawdy and local churches. In his leisure Juliana and Kyla Dawdy. Jack Dawdy he enjoyed his pets, gardenHe will also be missed by ing, and dabbling in technolother loving relatives and friends. A service celebrating Jack’s life will be held in August 2013. Details can be found at http://celebrationoflife-jackdawdy. weebly.com/. The burial will take place at Fort Logan National Cemetery. Viegut Funeral Home is caring for the burial arrangements. Go to www.viegutfuneralhome.com for condolences.
Jack Dawdy June 9, 1941 — June 26, 2013 Jack Olen Dawdy was born on June 9, 1941, to Lester Erwin Dawdy and Goldie Mae Wallace in Tecumseh, Neb. Jack received his formal education through Auburn High School in Nebraska, UCLA in California, and the Midwest Business College in Colorado. He accepted Christ as his Savior while he was in the U.S. Navy, where he served as a radio man on the USS Taluga (AO-62). Jack spent most of his life as a self-
the upstairs room of the Munson & Hubbell building before they built their own lodge hall at 335 Mountain Ave. in 1901. An associated lodge, the Berthoud Bethel Rebekah Lodge No. 63 that was organized in 1898, also used Odd Fellows Hall. In the case of both the Masons and Odd Fellows, the street-level rooms of their buildings were rented to businesses, while the upstairs hall was reserved for the lodge’s use. That arrangement continued for both organizations until the lodges dissolved and the buildings passed into private hands in recent years. In 1899 The Berthoud Bulletin published a full page dedicated to profiles of local businessmen and descriptions of the community’s amenities. In that year, when Berthoud was 15 years of age, it was a bragging point that not only the Masons, Odd Fellows and Rebekahs were active in the community, but the Woodmen of the World and the Knights of Pythias were present as well. A local chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star was founded one year later in 1900. Like the town’s churches, lodges and fraternal orders helped form
Joe Sandoval May 3, 1944 — April 8, 2012 Joe Sandoval, 69, passed away April 8, 2012 in Ramstein, Germany, where
The bandstand in the park
the cultural fabric of early Berthoud. Weekly meetings and lodge functions brought members together on a regular basis and provided a network of support that was otherwise lacking from life in small-town Colorado. Today Berthoud’s Masons, Odd Fellows and Rebekahs have been absorbed into larger lodges in Loveland. Their buildings still occupy prominent locations in town, as they have for more than a century. The Masonic Building is presently home to the Laughing Ladies Quilt Shop. The Odd Fellows building was recently purchased by the owners of Nonna Bella Country Italian Restaurant. Photo by Mark French
The Berthoud Odd Fellows hung a banner in their hall to commemorate the founding of their lodge on Feb. 27, 1892. The banner is now part of the Berthoud Historical Society’s Odd Fellows Collection.
he lived with his wife and son. He was born in Longmont, Colo., on May parents Eleanor and Leo Sandoval, son 3, 1944, and grew up in Berthoud, Colo. Chris, and a niece Danielle Ray Barney Joe graduated from Berthoud High Griffin. School in 1963. While in high school he He is survived by wife played football, basketball Francine and son Mathew and track. Sandoval in Germany, Joe began his Air Force son James Sandoval and career in 1965 in Saintfamily in London, three Mihiel, France and had grandchildren; sister, many assignments in Bernice Barney; brother Germany, in addition to in-law, Sherman Barney; the U.S. (Cannon Air Force two nephews, Anthony Base, New Mexico and and Andrew Barney of Francis E. Warren Base in Loveland, at this time Wyoming.) Andrew is on a mission in Joe retired from military Long Beach, Calif., Simon service in Zweibruecken Barney of Fort Collins, Germany, in 1990. He Colo. then worked as a civilJoe will have full miliian for the Department of tary honors at Fort Logan Defense (DECA) Defense Joe Sandoval Cemetery, in Denver. Commissary Agency. He Service will be July 17, was the Deputy Commissary 2013, at 1:30 p.m. (#V521 Officer at Bad Kreuznach, Vogelweh, at Fort Logan). Ramstein, Heidelberg Germany and There will be a pot-luck celebration of Camp Lejeune, N. C. Joe’s life on: Saturday July 20, 2013 at He retired from the Department Berthoud Town Park, by the swimming of Defense in 2006 and returned to pool from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. for family Ramstein, Germany. and friends to meet and celebrate his life. Joe was preceded in death by his
The band was dressed in latest style, Complete with ties and spats ... With double-breasted jackets and plumes upon their hats.
By Virginia Huppe The Surveyor
They played the tunes of yesterday and those of modern vogue. While on the grass before the shell the listeners came in droves.
What festive times there were in store when summer skies grew dark and people came to hear and watch the band play in the park.
The popcorn stand at work nearby. The old balloon man too, the neighbors anxious for a chat gave added luster too.
This is the seventh in a series of poems depicting Berthoud’s 125 Years Celebration.
The spirit of little Berthoud town Was lofted through the air. Upon the waves of music to all assembled there.