Old Fashion Masonic Podcast - Episode 7 – Jeff Sowder – Mr Freemason – Part 1

You want the definition of Mr Mason? It should be in Webster’s Dictionary with a photo of Jeff Sowder. The Man! The Myth! The Legend has made it on this episode of The Old Fashion Masonic Podcast. We split Imperial Sir Jeff’s interview up into two different parts; one strictly Masonic and the other Shrine.

On this episode w interviewed Most Worshipful Jeff Sowder, a Master Mason of Toronto Lodge in Toronto, KS, member of the Wichita Scottish Rite, member of the Midian Shrine, and Past Potentate of Midian Shrine, and Past Grand Master of The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons in Kansas and a Past Imperial Potentate. This mason has done it all!

We go into detail about Jeff’s Masonic journey, his family legacy, the reason he joined, and what he is doing now to serve the craft.
Listening to this episode, you will no doubt how Jeff was able to serve the craft in many different ways.

Jeff Sowder was born and raised in Toronto, Kansas. He operates four separate agricultural-related corporations, including a cow/calf operation, a retail feed business serving ranchers throughout the Flint Hills of Kansas, a wholesale cattle mineral business with distribution in four states, and a multi-faceted agricultural wholesale/retail business in Wichita.

Jeff and his wife, Cheryl, have been married for 48 years and have two daughters, Stephanie and Lindsay. Stephanie and her husband, Jamie Nelson, live near Toronto, Kansas, with their three children, Corinne, Sutton and Reid. Lindsay is married to John Hill, and they live in Fort. Scott, Kansas, with their sons, JJ and Hudson.

Brief Masonic Bio:
• Raised a Master Mason in 1975 at Woodson Lodge #121 (Toronto, KS)
• Past Master of Woodson Lodge in 1981, 1983, 1991 and 1992.
• He served as a District Deputy Grand Master, Area Deputy Grand Master, and Chairman of the Grand Lodge Membership Committee, and serving as an appointive Grand Officer on three separate occasions.
• Elected Grand Junior Warden in 1994.
• He served as Grand Master of Kansas in 1997.
• Created as a Shriner, at Midian Shrine Center, in 1988.
• He served as the Scottish Rite Personal Rep from 2006 to 2009.
• Served as the Kansas Masonic Foundation President from 2004 to 2011.
• He served as Potentate of Midian Shrine in 2004.
• Elected as the Imperial Outer Guard in 2009.
• He served as Imperial Potentate in 2019-2020.
• Jeff currently serves on a building committee for Midian Shrine Center.

This episode of “One Must Go” is a choice between eliminating forever, Chicken Noodle Soup, Chicken Fried Steak, Chicken Wings and a Chicken Sandwich. What would you choose to eliminate forever?

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