It is my sad duty to inform you of the passing to the Grand Lodge above of W. Bro. George Ceasar a member of San Juan de España lodge, the Funeral will take place at Villajoyosa Crematorium, this Monday September 7th at 1.00PM, there will be a wake after the funeral at Restuarante Los Amigos, Calle de La Palma, 14, Benidorm Old Town

Brian Cedric Walker became a joining member of Old Tower Lodge No. 49 on Monday 15^th January 2001 at the age of 64. He had been a regular visitor to the lodge during the previous year and he and his wife Val had attended many of the lodge’s social events.

Prior to moving to Spain, Brian had served for many years as an Officer in the Royal Air Force where he had a very distinguished career. He was a member of Royal Union Lodge No.246, in the province of Gloucestershire and held the office of Junior Warden prior to his departure to Spain.

Brian was an avid supporter and enthusiastic volunteer in the construction of the new Temple at Quesada and put in many hours of very hard labour and on one occasion in particular, worked alongside Mike Savory, Barrie Mansell and Mike Puckett when they wheel barrowed in 12 tons of premix concrete for the bases of the new supporting pillars. Brian and Barrie Mansell had each made a substantial donation to enable the addition of two more supporting pillars, thus making the lodge room considerably longer.

Brian was elected Master of Old Tower Lodge in 2004 and had a very successful year, after which he was awarded Provincial honours with the rank of PPAGDC.

He subsequently became Assistant Secretary and was appointed Secretary in 2007. He continued in that office until ill health caused him to retire a year later.

His health continued to decline and in 2010 he and Val returned home to Gloucestershire where they remained until he was called to the Grand Lodge above.

During the early hours of Sunday morning 8th March 2015, Right Worshipful Brother Peter Simmons, a well-loved Brother in the Province passed peacefully to the Grand Lodge Above. He will be sadly missed and our thoughts are with his wife Rosa and family.

EUOLOGY – By R.W.Bro Neville Jarrett

I first came across Peter Simmons when I applied to join the then resurrected san Juan de España Lodge. He took my Grand Lodge certificate and put it in a file after putting holes I it. We had a few comments and laughs over it.
Now Peter was a very private man, in spite of the his ever open smile and series of jokey comments. It was only bit by bit that I gleaned things about him. We were born only 3 months apart in 1938. When Peter left school he went into a butchers shop to work and it was here that he first had a taste of a hedonistic lifestyle. He was then called up into the army. Then I have a huge gap when he married Joan had children and set about making money when he had a garage selling and repairing cars and selling Petrol
This is when caravanning came into his life.
He then began buying property in Spain and elsewhere.
When I first met him he was already well established in Freemasonry he was in all the Orders and was eventually Deputy Provincial grand master and later I became assistant provincial grand master. We worked closely together in Chapter Sinceridad. Peter role was to begin spreading Freemasonry in the province and in this he was successful. He had the skill to set it up then left it to others to develop the lodge
In his private life he divorced Joan and eventually met and later married Rosamarie. It is coincidental that we both developed cancer at the same time, Peter´s was in his bladder which was eventually removed then on a caravan journey to England he developed a pain in his back which he put down to prolonged driving in an uncomfortable position.
On his return to Spain a Masonic friend, here today, put him in touch with a cancer specialist who eventually diagnosed a tumour on the spine.
Alas this proved very active and it was not long before he was hospitalised several times when on each occasion he was nursed by Rosa Marie very attentively.
It was barely 3 weeks ago that he was re admitted to hospital with severe pain and I spoke to him on the phone the day after he was admitted and his voice by then was weak and over the next week it got even weaker. In pain he was given relief from it and sadly last Sunday in very early hours of it he went to the Grand Lodge above, greatly respected and very much missed.

Peter, May God bless you

Tributes:
Masonic Brother, Neville Jackson
Glynn Walters
Emma Jane Clark

In Memorian.
RWBro. Mike Levy. Ginsp. PPSGW.

Some of you may have read the poem “The Bridge Builder”. It tells the story of an elderly man who walked a highway and came one night to a chasm deep and wide. Because of his vast experience he had little difficulty in crossing the sullen stream. But when he was safely on the other side he turned to build a bridge to span the tide. Another traveller asked him why he stopped to build the bridge when his journey ended at the end of the day, and he would not return that way. He said: “There followed after me today a youth. This chasm which is naught to me, might to him a pitfall be. He too must cross in the twilight dim. Good friend, I am building this bridge for him.”

This is a poem that could so easily be written about RWBro. Mike Levy. Always willing and ready to build bridges for others, to help where help was needed, to give of himself for the good of all. To pass on the knowledge and experience he had acquired during his lifetime. His passing has left us with a feeling of great loss, but Mike would not wish us to mourn his death but rather to celebrate his life.

Mike loved sports. He cycled all over Europe in his younger days. He played Ice Hockey, and he loved to ski, only giving that up 6 years ago. Mike was a respected authority in the canine world. In particular on Standard Poodles and over the years he owned and showed many fine examples at English Championship Dog Shows with great success. He was a respected judge of the breed and officiated in that capacity on many occasions.

Mike and Agnes met some 11 years ago through the local Masonic charity shop where Agnes used to help out. He asked her out several times and each time she said no. But Mike could be very persuasive and finally Agnes agreed to have dinner with him. And the rest as they say is history. He spoke about how very happy and grateful he was to have such a wonderful partner in Agnes. There was no doubt he meant every word. He said he woke up each morning and thanked god for his life, and Agnes.

I knew he’d been through a tough time health wise. But Mike was a man who took life’s blows on the chin, picked himself back up and got on with life.
Through all the years that I knew him, I never once heard him complain, and these last two years when he needed regular dialysis and other medical care he was full of praise for the doctors and nurses who looked after him. Never once did he say “Why me?”

Mike was a man who said things the way he saw them. He shot from the hip. For some it took a little while to get the measure of the man. But when you did you soon realized that to Mike your friendship was a precious and a wonderful thing.

Mike loved his Freemasonry. He had a great passion for it and that passion never left him. His years of dedicated service to the Craft were recognized with promotions leading to his very high rank in Spanish Masonry. But this never prevented him from accepting the most menial of tasks or humblest of duties.

An English Mason some two and a half centuries ago wrote: “Let us rejoice in the exercise of those excellencies that prove that we are brought out of darkness into light. And let us show our good works unto the world, that through our light so shining unto men, they may glorify the Great Master of the Universe and therefore, do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with their God. Our dear departed Mike followed those teachings to the full and the light that radiated so brightly from him during his lifetime will continue to illuminate our lives for years to come.

WBro. Brian Imber.