18th District Square &Compass Club

Transplant Fund

David G. Arnold Memorial - Transplant Fund

This page is intended to support kidney and other organ transplants 
with Masons of the AFM of SC and their families, both within the 18th Masonic District and statewide in our Grand Jurisdiction. The fund was established in the name of David George Arnold by his home Lodge, Pelham No.423.

David Arnold was originally diagnosed with Renal Carcinoma in 2004. Over 10 years after diagnosis, 2 tumors on each kidney were discovered by renal oncologists. Cryoablation was performed on all 4 tumors. While these procedures treated the cancer, they caused irreversible damage to both of his kidneys. David was diagnosed with end-stage renal failure in 2015. Through the Grace of God, a kidney donor was identified, and a transplant fund was initiated by Pelham Lodge No.423 and approved by Grand Master Michael D. Smith, Sr . The transplant fund was designed to help provide  financial support for the Arnold family to assist with medical bills, food expenses, and logistical support expenses extraneous to David’s insurance coverage.
Besides David’s love for his wife, daughter, and granddaughter, he had a love for youth soccer. The full breadth of his contributions to youth soccer in the Upstate  was immeasurable. He served as V.P. of South Carolina Youth Soccer, as well as a board member and coach for St. Giles Soccer Club, Greenville Eagles Soccer Club, and also founded the Team United Soccer Club and the Upstate Girls Soccer Association. He was, at one time, the only coach to win 3 South Carolina Youth Soccer U-19Boys State Soccer Championships.
In addition to David’s impact on the soccer community statewide, he was a board member of both the Greenville Metro YMCA and the Eastside YMCA. He was the founding member of the Upstate Parrotheads Club. After David and his wife, Kathy, moved to S.C., he worked his way up to Vice President of Sales, for Maxim Metals.
David, along with son-in-law Ben, was a member of Pelham Masonic Lodge No. 423. He donated thousands of hours to this fraternity, and was one of the founding members of the Pelham Masonic Soccer League, as well as the Pelham Masonic Memorial Day Girls Soccer Festival Tournament. Through these girls’ soccer ventures, Pelham Masonic Lodge was able to raise $1.2 million dollars over 12-years and donated almost all of the funds to  Masonic charities: Shriners
Children’s Hospital; John I. Smith Childhood Language Disorder Clinic-Scottish Rite; York Rite Bodies-Hearing, Sight, & Medical Research; Ken Coates Foundation; Battered Women & Children; Safe Harbor; Eastern Star-Assisted Living & Scholarships for Religious Education; Diabetes Research-Order of Amaranth; and others.  Also, these funds  put Pelham Lodge No.423 on a sound financial footing for decades to come.
Sadly, we lost David George Arnold to kidney disease on May 22nd, 2023. In his honor, we have established The David Arnold Memorial Transplant Fund,501(c)3, to assist Masons and their families with the extraneous expenses not covered by their medical insurance, as they go through the organ donor transplant journey. This fund, supported with fund raised by Pelham Lodge No.423 and our other outstanding 18th District Lodges, is available to support Brothers and their families within our Grand Jurisdiction  of S.C.  To donate, please forward 
your donations to: Pelham Masonic Lodge No.423, P.O. Box 5041, Grenville, SC 29606.  To request donor expense support assistance from this fund, please send your request to the same address. Thank you for helping save a Life.