Odd fellows

• In the middle of the 20th century, there was nothing odd about being an Odd Fellow. The Odd Fellows, a group dedicated to community service projects, were connected to the towns movers and shakers in both the figurative and literal sense.
(Arizona Daily Star)
• The Odd Fellows Lodge in Columbus is pleased to announce that Bridget Hesselberg, Molly Hussey and Monica Raatz have been selected to participate in the 62nd annual United Nations Pilgrimage for Youth.
(Portage Daily Register)
• The exhibition, which runs through Feb. 25, includes items for sale like painted furniture, a 1920s game wheel and a circa 1890 goat sculpture from an Odd Fellows Hall in Colorado.
(New York Times)
• Preserved on its celotex walls are 16 murals of the West painted by three Italian POWs. Owned by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Officers' Club is not open to the public on a daily basis, and few get to see the murals.
(Billings Gazette)
• Politics, indeed, can make odd bed fellows. Last week, an effort by a group called Political Parity that aims to get more women into politics featured both the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation and a group that has asked Congress to stop funding them.
(Chicago Sun-Times)
• It is comprised of seven historic cemeteries which were in use between 1884 and 1914. They are: Ancient Order of United Workers (AOUW), Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), Knights of Pythias (K of P), Loosley, Masons, Porter and Rosedale.
(Examiner)
• They're members of Hesperian Lodge No. 181 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and they chair the annual Cambria Irregulars Marine Corps Birthday Dinner. The Farrells also help each other.
(San Luis Obispo Tribune)
• Mixdorf in 1945. Mrs. Mixdorf graduated from Waterloo West High School in 1937. She was a homemaker and a member of Cedar No. 30 Odd Fellows Lodge and Happy Thought Rebekah Lodge, Eastern Star, Masons and Westminster Presbyterian Church.
(Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier)
• It was the Trapp family -- only about five or six stones. It was a black family, and one of them was in the International Order of Odd Fellows, a fraternal organization, and also the Knights of Pythias.
(Herald Tribune)
• Warren — On Saturday, Dec. 3, Friends for Friends hosted its 3rd Annual Pig Roast Toys for Tots drive at the Odd Fellows Hall in Warren. Friends and families from all over the area stopped in to donate toys, have some food and support a great cause.
(VillageSoup Belfast)