Most Worshipful Brother Loyd E.
Davis
Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Most
Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons
of Utah 2009
Most Worshipful Loyd Evan Davis was born on April
10, 1939 in Newark, Ohio. He was the first of
two sons born to Paul and Eleanor Davis. Loyd
was educated in the Newark school system, graduating
from Newark Senior High School in 1957. He
attended Northwestern University for two years and
then enlisted in the United States Air Force in
September 1959. In his 20 year career in
communications he spent nine years as a full time
student receiving both a Bachelor’s and a
Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from
Oklahoma State University as well as graduating from
the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air
Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. Since his
retirement in October 1979, Loyd has continued his
communications career in the defense industry.
He is currently the Director of Marketing
Communications at L-3 Communication Systems – West
in Salt Lake City, Utah.
MWB Davis petitioned his father’s lodge,
Lafayette Lodge No. 81 in Cincinnati, Ohio, on
August 14, 1972. Since he was stationed in
Virginia at the time, it took a few months to
contact his references and recommenders before he
was elected to receive the degrees on October 10,
1972. Correspondence between the Grand Lodge
of Ohio and the Grand Lodge of Virginia resulted in
a letter from Occoquan Lodge No. 310 in Woodbridge,
Virginia, to appear for initiation on January 15,
1973. He was subsequently passed to the degree
of Fellowcraft on March 26, 1973, and raised to the
sublime degree of Master Mason on June 21, 1973.
He affiliated with Occoquan Lodge on November 12,
1973. He is now a life member of these two
lodges. He received the Master of the Royal
Secret Degree on October 27, 1973 in Alexandria,
Virginia and was initiated into the Ancient Arabic
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in a hot sands ceremony
at Kena Temple in Fairfax, Virginia on November 17,
1973.
MWB Davis began his association with Utah Masonry
in 1997 when he affiliated with Bonneville Lodge No.
31 on May 5th. He was elected Secretary in
1999, Senior Warden in 2001, and Worshipful Master
in 2002. He then returned to the job of
Secretary which he held until 2008.
Additionally, he served as Secretary of the
Bountiful Masonic Temple Association from 1999 to
2008. Loyd was appointed as Junior Grand
Steward by MW Robert K. McKenzie in 2003, served as
Grand Chaplain in 2004, Grand Orator in 2005, and
was elected as Junior Grand Warden in 2006. He
also served on the Grand Lodge Education Committee
from 2003 – 2009. He was installed as the
134th Grand Master of Masons in Utah on January 31,
2009.
Other Utah Masonic organizations include the Salt
Lake York Rite Bodies where he was elected to the
Bonneville Conclave, Red Cross of Constantine in
2006, the Utah Scottish Rite Valley of Salt Lake
where he served as the Commander of Kadosh in 2006
and was elected a Knight Commander Court of
Honor in 2005. He currently serves as
Assistant Director of Work. He affiliated with
El Kalah Temple A. A. O. N. M. S. in 2005 and served
as Chaplain in 2006 and 2008.
MWB Loyd is married to the former Judith Lambert.
They have three children; Mark, Scott, and James;
and six grandchildren; Aaron, Samantha, Christina,
Britney, Colin, and Abigail. His life-long
hobby has been amateur radio which provided the
inspiration for the central feature of his Grand
Master’s pin, the radio tower.
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