Most Worshipful Brother Robert Lee Marimon

Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of Utah 1961.

Robert Lee Marimon, Jr. was elected and installed Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, F. & A. M. of Utah on January 24, 1961. He is the eighty-sixth Grand Master of the Grand Jurisdiction of Utah.

He is a mative of Utah, born in Whiterocks, Uintah County, on October 2, 1903, a son of Robert Lee and Nancy Forsythe Marimon.

Brother Marimon received his elementary education in Whiterocks, Utah and Grand Junction, Colorado. He attended Claremont High School in Claremont, California, for two years and completed his high school education at the Westminster Collegiate Institute of Salt Lake City. He received his college training at Pomona College, Claremont, California, where he received his B. A. degree in June of 1929.

On December 3, 1930, Miss Florence Phillips became Brother Marimon's bride and they have two children. Robert Lee Marimon, III is employed by the U. S. Navy as a Physical Engineer and lives in Pasadena, California. His daughter, Nancy Forsythe Johnson, lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and is a, clinical psychologist. She and her husband are both receiving their Ph. D. degrees from the University of North Carolina in June of 1961. Nancy is a Past Honored Queen of Bethel No. 6, Order of Job's Daughters and a member of Duveromy Chapter 17, O.E.S.

Mrs. Florence Marimon is a Past Matron of the same Chapter of the O.E.S. and has served the Grand Chapter in two capacities. In 1946 she was Grand Esther and in 1950 Grand Marshal. For five years Mrs. Marimon has been Guardian of Bethel No. 6, International Order of Job's Daughters. She is an able and willing helper in all of Brother Marimon's undertakings and their interests parallel in things Masonic.

Our Grand Master is a business man. For twenty-four years he was the owner and operator of the Whiterocks Trading Post, a general merchandise establishment on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation. During fourteen of those years he served as Postmaster for the community. He was active in community and county affairs and served Uintah County as a School Board member for seven years. He also served on War Price and Ration Board for Uintah County. He was one of the builders of the Uintah Power & Light Company of Roosevelt, Utah. He helped to put that company on a sound basis when it came his turn to take over where his father left off. He is now the President of the Board for the Uintah Power & Light Company.

Brother Marimon is also business manager for Wasatch Academy, a four year boarding high school, which is owned and operated by the Board of National Missions of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Wasatch Academy is located in Mt. Pleasant, Utah. He is an Elder in the Presbyterian Church and an active member of the First Presbyterian Church of Mt. Pleasant.

Brother Marimon petitioned Basin Lodge No. 20, F. & A. M. then located at Myton, Utah, in February of 1926. He received the Master Mason degree August 30, 1926. Whiterocks is some thirty miles from Myton and in 1926; the road between the two cities was all dirt and rocks. All trips to the Lodge Hall were by Model T Ford. Such trips were most interesting and often fraught with unexpected and trying experiences. Some involved deep mud; some rocks; and some the Model T; when the weather was good. Bad weather was another problem.

Thus began a long and active service in his Lodge. He served as Worshipful Master in 1938, then as Deputy Grand Lecturer and later as Secretary.

He received the York Rite Degrees in Price, Utah, and is still a member of Charles Fred Jennings Commandery, No.6, K.T. He dimitted from Price Chapter, R. A. M. at Price, to become a charter member of Kings Peak Chapter No.9, at Roosevelt and is a Past High Priest of that Chapter. He is a life member of the Grand Council, A.H.P. of Utah. He is also a member of Utah Council No.1, R. & S. M. He joined El Kalah Temple of the Shrine, April 10, 1954.

Brother Marimon now holds dual membership, a member of Damascus Lodge No. 10, Provo, and Basin Lodge No. 20, now at Roosevelt.

He has been active in the Order of the Eastern Star. He is a life member of Duveromy Chapter No. 17, and was Patron in 1940. He was Grand Patron, O.E.S. of Utah in 1950. He has been, and still is, interested in Masonic Youth. At the present time he is Guardian Treasurer for the Bethel of Job's Daughters at Mt. Pleasant, Utah.

Brother Marimon received his first appointment to Grand Lodge in 1949 when Newell B. Dayton, then Grand Master, appointed him Junior Grand Steward. He has served continuously in the appointive offices until his election to Junior Grand Warden in 1958. Successive steps followed until his election to the office of the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, F. & A. M. of Utah.

In the prime of life, with a splendid scholastic training, practical business experience, for a given gift of making friends out of acquaintances and for his interest in the young people of today, we believe he is fully equipped for office of Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, F. & A. M. of Utah.

Utah Grand Lodge Proceedings, 1961.

PGM, Robert Lee Marimon died on March 28, 1968 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Utah Grand Lodge Proceedings, 1969, page 61.