Tribute to: W. Bro Bill Frost TD (Major: R.E.M.E: Retd)
 
On a personal level W. Bro Bill Frost and I were close
friends for more than 40 years, we even went to the
same school, but we didn’t know each other at that
time.
 
Bill had to retire from work when he was engineering
manager at Jacobs biscuits and I know that he was
very well thought of by Jacobs during his time there.
 
He became a freemason before I did and it was Bill
that introduced me to the craft in Dormer Lodge. It
should also be remembered that he did great service
in Royal Arch Masonry, becoming “Z” several times.
 
He joined Clarence lodge of MMM in March 2003;
I can’t believe that more than 9 years have passed
since then.
 
When a person becomes a freemason, they join an
W.Bro. Bill Frost, T.D.
organisation which is diverse, some rich, some poor,
6th January 1949 ~ 3rd October 2012
and lots in between.  
 
We aspire to give comfort to those not as fortunate as us, “those on the lowest spoke on fortunes wheel”,
and that is what Bill did. Bill did almost of all the various jobs in Dormer lodge, becoming Worshipful
Master in 1996, and again in 2004.
 
When Bill left the Masters chair in 1996, he became lodge almoner and continued his almoner work through
his second mastership. He also took on the job of Treasurer in Clarence lodge, and did a splendid job. He
became Master of Clarence in 2010, and did a great job of that too.
 
In addition to his duties connected to Dormer Lodge and Clarence Mark, he did a lot of work for the friends
of Tithebarn care home in Crosby, which is his nominated charity for donations after his death. His work for
people who needed help was tireless, whether it was somebody who had fallen on hard times, or one of our
widows needing support.
 
This was all the more remarkable when you consider that Bill couldn’t walk. I never heard him complain
about it once. It goes almost without saying that the support of his wife Pauline was vital to his work. Bill
was a proactive almoner, and rooted out people who needed assistance; he didn’t wait for people to
approach him. Whatever was needed, it was always done with good humour, but if the bureaucrats got in
the way of a just cause, they could look out.
 
Bill and Pauline were also foster career's, and they touched the lives of many, Indeed, one of their sons
was a looked after child that they adopted.
 
It was only Bill’s rapidly declining health that made him resign from Freemasonry, it was a blow for him, he
was a Mason through and through.
 
Worshipful Brother Bill Frost will be greatly missed, not only by his family, but by me personally, and of
course his all his friends, whether they be freemasons or not.
 

He lived respected and died regretted.
 
Alan Hughes 3/12/12
Clarence Lodge of MMM 447
 
This tribute was delivered in Clarence Lodge MMM, on the 3rd December 2012 by Alan Hughes
The report on that meeting can be viewed on this link.