Southampton-Cumberland County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Mason, Annie Garrett, 1960 

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ANNIE GARRETT MASON

CHURCH AND CIVIC LEADER BURIED IN BOYKINS

   BOYKINS - Mrs. Annie Garrett Mason, 68, woman’s leader of Southampton 
County, died Monday night in a Richmond hospital after illness of several 
months.

   Mrs. Mason was the wife of John Young Mason and a daughter of Ben and 
Mrs. Lelia Farmer Garrett.  She was a native of Cumberland Court House and 
lived in the Boykins community 48 years.

   She was a member of Boykins Methodist Church and of Boykins Woman’s Club, 
a past Southside District president of the Virginia Federation of Woman Clubs, 
and Southampton County secretary and treasurer of the Woman’s Christian 
Temperance Union.

   She also had been a zone leader of the Woman’s Society of Christian Service 
and taught the Mason Bible Class at Boykins Church 25 years.

   She was a graduate of Longwood College and taught school in Rockbridge 
County and Southampton County Schools.

   Besides her husband, surviving are one son, John Y. Mason, Jr., of 
Richmond; one foster son, Garrett Hughes Turner of Richmond; one brother, 
Calvin C. Garrett of Cumberland County; two sisters, Mrs. Joseph D. Carpenter 
of Cumberland Court House and Mrs. Lytt Landram of Doswell; and three 
granddaughters.

   Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at the Boykins 
Methodist Church by the Rev. Harrell G. Thach pastor, assisted by the Rev. 
William Ferguson of Monumental Methodist Church, Emporia, and the Rev. Ben B. 
Ussery of Boykins Baptist Church.  Burial was in Beechwood Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were H.T. Smith, A.L. Knight, Jr., W.R. Emmons, George Davis, 
J.C. Blowe, J. David Sykes and Raymond A. Bunn.


Annie (GARRETT; Mrs. John Y. {Sr.}) MASON, of Boykins, women’s leader, 
former Rockbridge & Southampton Co. teacher, 
Cumberland C.H. native, d. 14 Nov 1960, Richmond, age 68, 
interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 3, Section J, Plot 12*), Boykins, 
   16 Nov 1960, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 17, 1960, sect. 2, p. 3 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Beechwood list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," June 16, 1966, p. 7) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/m250j1ob.txt 


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