Rebekah Lodge

Deborah Rebekah Lodge 63 has 42 members, 36 women and six men.   The Rebekah Lodge was founded on Sept. 16, 1851 by Schuyler Colfax.  The Norfolk Rebekah Lodge was instituted on April 16, 1891.  There have been four assembly presidents from the Norfolk Lodge, Cora Beels, Agnes Jewett, Vivian Jones and Myrtle Reinhold.  The group meets the second and fourth Mondays of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Odd Fellow Temple, 403 W. Norfolk Ave.  To be eligible to join the Rebekah Lodge, a female must be over 18; a man must be a member of the Odd Fellow Lodge.                              Source: excerpts from Norfolk Daily News, Saturday, July 7, 2007 on page 14.