L. D. Mason and Helen Frances McFarlen Mason
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MASON, Helen Frances
Born: McLennan Co., Tx.
Father: R.Q. McFARLEN
Mother: Lelia JERDEN
Source: Adams Funeral Home
Transcribed by Bettye Odom

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CROSBYTON (Special) — Services for Helen Mason, 67, of Crosbyton will be at 2 p.m. Monday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Lester B. Griffin, pastor, officiating.

Burial will be in Crosbyton Cemetery under direction of Adams Funeral Home.

She died at 6:30 a.m. Saturday at her home. Justice of the Peace Clyde Davis ruled natural causes in the death.

Mrs. Mason was born in McLennan County and moved to Crosbyton in 1939. She married L.D. Mason on Jan. 17, 1942, in Crosbyton. She was a former grocery store operator and was a member of the Crosbyton Senior Citizens. She was a member of First Baptist Church and Women´s Missionary Union. A son, Larry Dall, died in 1973.

Survivors include her husband; two sons, Billy Joe of Donathan, Ala., and Jack Wiseman of Houston; two daughters, Bonnie Edwards of Crosbyton and Emma Rose Parker of Lubbock; four brothers, George McFarlen of Del Rio, Roger McFarlen, C.L. McFarlen, both of Waco, and James McFarlen of Austin; 10 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to the American Cancer Society or Hodges Cancer Unit at Lubbock's Methodist Hospital.

Lubbock Avalanche Journal, October 24, 1987
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes

L.D. Mason Graveside services for L.D. Mason, 89, of Crosbyton were held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Crosbyton Cemetery with the Rev. Roger Garrett officiating.

Burial was in Crosbyton Cemetery under the direction of Adams Funeral Home.

Mr. Mason died Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2000, at Crosbyton Hospital.

He was born April 6, 1910, in Fort Worth. He married Frances "Helen" McFarlen on Jan. 17, 1942, in Crosbyton. She died Oct. 24, 1987. He moved to Crosbyton in 1927. He owned Mason´s Blacksmith´s Shop and Mason Grocery Store from 1950 to 1974.

He was preceded in death by a son, Larry Dall Mason on July 4, 1973.

Survivors include two sons, Billy Joe of Donathan, Ala., and Jack Wiseman of Houston; two daughters, Bonnie Edwards of Crosbyton and Emma Rose Parker of Lubbock; 10 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

Source: The Crosby County News & Chronicle, Friday, Jan. 14, 2000 page 8




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