Contact the group if you are related to anyone on the list
The Jacksonville Lions Club needs your help finding families of charter members. The Jacksonville Lions Club is in it’s 100th year of service. An Open House is planned for April 4, 2024 for that.
We have the original charter, but have not been located local residents that may be family members of those charter signers.
We would like to honor those families and let them know their fathers started something lasting and a value to this community.
Sarah Robinson of Franklin is the Jacksonville Lions Club President in this year. Recent previous presidents have been: Aaron Singleton, Larry Whewell, Tom Atkins and Jim Barber.
We are hoping for the help of The Source and that of its readers in locating these legacy builders.
We are asking that any living relative of a charter member contact Jacksonville Lions Club via: Emailing Tom Atkins at tjatkins11@gmail.com or texting 217-248-7000 with a message of how to best connect.
Names affixed to the charter are:
H.K. Snyder
Carl Hamilton
E.J. Mahoney
Cecil E. Hamilton
Rev G.E. Hobbs
J.V. Kennedy
Dallas Hagen
Wm C. Meyer
A.W. Skinner
Carl York
John M. Doyle
C.A. Phillips
Walter N. Smith
John E. Coonen
P.A. Hennigan
Harold Welch
J.C. Cockill
O.H. Wilder
James C. Pyatt
Paul P. Thompson
O.M. Olson
Joe J. Mallen
Dr J.J. Schenz
Wm. H. DeBolt
Leonard Potter
Joe Gaither
John H O’Donnell
Charles Baker
Harry C. Roach
Tom Duffner
Frank Kilorn
W.R. Gilbert
Bassil Sorrells
D. Scotty Sweeny
H.H. Vasconcellos
C.P. Joy
Dr E.D. Canatsey
E.P. Kuppler
H.W.Dorwart
Gus Berquist
J.F. Claus
Wm. Robinson
Clyde R. Sheffield
T. Oyer Wright
