Mt Vernon Illinois Patton

JAMES ROY HACKETT — Benton

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12, at the Leffler-Poulson Funeral Home, Benton, with the Rev. Charles Davis officiating. Burial will be in the Masonic & Odd Fellows Cemetery in Benton, where military rites will be performed by the Benton American Legion Post 280, V.F.W. Post 2671 and National Guard Honor Squad out of Marion. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. Friday until the funeral hour at 1 p.m. Masonic rites will be observed at noon Friday at the funeral home. James was also very active in the Masonic fraternity. He was a member of the Akin Lodge 749 A.F. & A.M. of Thompsonville, where he was a Past Worshipful Master. He was also an honorary member with several Masonic lodges throughout Southern Illinois. Mr. Hackett was a member and Past Commander of the Order of the Knights Templar Patton Commandery No. 69 Mt.Vernon, a member of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Valley of Southern Illinois, a member of  the Grand Council Allied Masonic Degrees Little Egypt Council No. 400, York Rite of Freemasonry Royal Arch Chapter No. 69 in Mt. Vernon, and a member of the Imperial Council of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine Ainad Temple of East St. Louis. Survivors include two sons, Stanley Hackett of Golconda, and Gary Hackett and wife Patty of Kingman, Ariz.; a daughter, Barbara McCoy of Las Vegas, Nev.; a stepdaughter, Belinda and husband Mike Maceri of Benton; six granddaughters, Stephanie Rodriguez of Oregon, Michelle Hackett, Dana Hackett and Laura Hackett all of Las Vegas, Nev., Christa Dipalo of Miami, Fla., and Tyra Hackett of Benton; three step-grandsons, Daniel Buckmaster and Brian Buckmaster of Michigan, and Destin Buckmaster of Benton; 12 great-grandchildren; and two step-great-grandchildren.

Inner Light, Radiant Life: Pride 2011 at MVUUF

Almost all of the congregations I've visited in my time in St. Louis have been planning their participation in LGBTQ Pride Weekend. They all are anxious to make their presence as supportive allies public. What an amazing development! But instead of staying in St. Louis to take advantage of the myriad of Pride events this weekend, I came home to Mt. Vernon to lead the Pride service at my home congregation. The entire service was moving, but I was particularly touched by the sharing of personal experiences in the "Personal Contexts of Pride." People spoke openly about their struggles with LGBTQ equality from a variety of perspectives. Amazingly open sharing, trusting each other with some things that hadn't been shared before. Nobody whitewashing where they've been before coming to the acceptance and love they now hold. by Paul Oakley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License . Any content marked "All Rights Reserved" is not covered by this license. Content quoted from other sources remains the intellectual property of its original owners.

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The bench and bar of Illinois, historical and reminiscent

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Proceedings of the triennial convocation of the General Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of the United States of America

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The Interior

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University of Illinois directory, listing the 35,000 persons who have ever been connected with the Urbana-Champaign departments, including officers of instruction and administration and 1397 deceased

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American Hereford record and Hereford herd book

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