Too many secrets for me as well. My Mother was a Worthy Matron, her sister also an Eastern Star. My Dad, my brother a Shriner, and my mother's brother were masons. I had several of mother's friends ask me to join, but I refused. I feel like any org. that uses a building with no windows and has so many secrets is not anything I want to be part of. I kept my mother's ring and had it made into a pendant, I didn't ask anyone's permission and don't care what anyone thinks. Daddy bought it for her and felt like I had that privilege. I have worn it a couple of times over the years.
I have all of my Mother's papers and her book, but I have never looked at any of them in the 29 years she has been gone, because I wasn't interested in doing so. Not really sure where they even are now.
Last edited by Gerbie; 09-17-2019 at 03:38 AM.