Obit of Masters, Everett Edison - Grant County, Oklahoma

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::Center Plains Cemetery--Hale Center TX

Everett Edison Masters

PLAINVIEW - Everett Edison Masters, 90, died Friday, Aug. 29, 2003.

Services will be at 2:30 p.m. today in Center Plains Chapel with the 
Rev. Ava Berry, United Methodist Church district superintendent of 
Plainview district, and the Rev. Stacy Conner, pastor of First 
Baptist Church in Muleshoe, officiating. Masonic graveside services 
will follow. Arrangements are by Wood-Dunning Funeral Home of 
Plainview.

Mr. Masters was born on July 13, 1913, at Pond Creek, Okla., and 
moved to Cotton Center in 1930. He farmed and owned a fertilizer 
business at Cotton Center for several years.

He was the founder of the Hale County Farm and Ranch Museum at Hale 
Center and served on the historical commission in addition to the 
history and archives commission of the Northwest Texas Methodist 
Conference.

He was named the first Pioneer Man of the Plains in May of 2003 at 
the Pioneer Days Reunion at Plainview. He helped found the Boys Ranch 
Division of the Methodist Home at Waco. He founded the Northwest 
Texas Chapter of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation in 1956.

He was a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Mason and was past Master of 
Lemond Lodge No. 832 A.F.&A.M. in Hale Center where he received the 
golden trowel and 50-year member awards.

Survivors include his wife, Florence; a son, Wesley Will Masters of 
Cotton Center; four stepchildren, James Wilson of Wylie, Marvin 
Wilson of Amarillo, Mary Ethel Henry of East Barnard and Jean Wilson 
of Canyon; three sisters, Gladys Hail of Hale Center, Fern 
Shollenbarger of Fresno, Calif., and Francis Ketron of Richmond, 
Ind.; three brothers-in-law, Warren Driver of Brownwood, J.W. Bandy 
of Seagraves and George Wallace of Fresno, Calif.; 22 grandchildren; 
33 great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces and nephews.

The family suggest memorials be to Myasthenia Gravis Foundation, NW 
Texas Chapter, P.O. Box 1148, Levelland, TX 79336; or to Center 
Plains Cemetery, Route 1, Hale Center, Texas 79041.

Amarillo Globe-News, Aug. 31, 2003
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