Masons assume ownership of former Isabel Sr. Citizens Center
The former Isabel Senior Citizens Center - originally built by Masonic Sunshine Lodge 163 in 1961 - closed last July, triggering a decades-old, unwritten agreement giving ownership to Masonic Lodge 172 in Eagle Butte.
Sticking to a decades-old unwritten agreement, ownership of the former Isabel Senior Citizen Center which has been vacant and unused for a year has reverted to Masonic Lodge 172 of Eagle Butte - even though the organization doesn’t really want it.
The building - built by the Masonic Sunshine Lodge 163 of Isabel in 1961 and dedicated in January of 1962 - served the chapter for many years before Suns…