Brazoria Co., TX - Obits: Vida Mason ************************************************ Contributed for use in the Texas Archives by: David R. Brumbelow Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ************************************************ Vida Mason (AD 1907-1984) NAME: Vida Mason MAIDEN NAME: Follett RESIDENCE: 630 E. 9th, Houston, Texas (Harris County) DATE OF BIRTH: Feb. 8, 1907 PLACE OF BIRTH: Surfside, TX (Brazoria County) PASSED AWAY: July 26, 1984 AGE: 77 years DATE OF SERVICE: July 30, 1984 HOUR: 10:00 a.m. PLACE OF SERVICE: Palms Chapel of Roses PLACE OF INTERMENT: Danbury Cemetery, Danbury, TX CLERGYMAN: Joe Brumbelow, pastor of West Heights Baptist Church, Corpus Christi, TX SURVIVED BY: 4 Daughters: Esther Cline of Houston; Mary Mathes of Austin; Ruby Cain of Houston; Laura Galbreath of West Columbia 2 Brothers: W. B. Follett of Angleton; J. B. Follett of Channelview 2 Sisters: Ella V. Smith of Uncertain, TX; Ruby Callihan of Oyster Creek 18 Grandchildren Palms Funeral Home and Chapel of the Roses, 2300 East Highway 35, Angleton, TX Vida Mason was a sister to Joe Brumbelow’s mother, Carrie Mae (Follett) Brumbelow. Vida worked for many years as a nurse at Memorial Baptist Hospital in downtown Houston. At the funeral Joe Brumbelow recalled, “My mother died when I was a very small boy. Aunt Vida reminded me more of her than anyone else. She helped deliver my second boy, David. She took care of my youngest boy, Mark, in the hospital nursery…I remember when I baptized her at Doverside Baptist Church [Houston, TX].” “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.” Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” -John 14:1-6; The Bible. Scripture Rev. Joe Brumbelow often used in Funeral Services. A book about Rev. Brumbelow was published in 2005: The Wit and Wisdom of Pastor Joe Brumbelow, hannibalbooks.com The Folletts are mentioned in this book. -submitted by his son, David R. Brumbelow, P.O. Box 300, Lake Jackson, TX 77566. nsbc77562@LWOL.com August 26, AD 2007. Sources: Clergy Record, given to officiating minister by the funeral home. Rev. Joe Brumbelow’s personal records. Remembrances of Mrs. Joe (Bonnie) Brumbelow.