Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Hopkins Lodge 17

Striving to make our community a better place to live
with Friendship, Love, and Truth

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows aims to provide a framework that promotes personal and social development. Lodge degrees and activities aim to improve and elevate every person to a higher, nobler plane; to extend sympathy and aid to those in need, making their burdens lighter, and to be an influence for the good of humanity.

For Odd Fellows, the degrees in Odd Fellowship emphasize a leaving of the old life and the start of a better one, of welcoming travelers, and of helping those in need. Lodges also provide an international social network of brothers and sisters that extends to more than 26 countries worldwide. The command of the IOOF is to "visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate the orphan."