Southampton-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Mason, John Y. Sr., 1966 

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JOHN YOUNG MASON

   BOYKINS - A funeral service for John Young Mason Sr., was conducted Sunday 
at 2 p.m. in Boykins Methodist Church by the Rev. C. Richard Scott, the Rev. 
Ben B. Ussery and the Rev. Graham S. Carlton.  Burial was in Beechwood 
Cemetery.  McDowell Funeral Home was in charge.

   Pallbearers were H.T. Smith, Lewis Knight, W.R. Emmons, George Davis, J.C. 
Bunn, R.A. Bunn, Herman Carlton, and Walter H. Britt.

   Mason, 78, retired principal of Boykins High School, died Thursday in a 
Richmond nursing home.

   A native of Sussex County, he was a son of Robert Lee and Mrs. Drewry Mason 
and the husband of the late Mrs. Annie Garrett Mason.

   He was a member of Boykins Methodist Church and a former Boykins town 
councilman.  He was a director of Virginia National Bank and a past master and 
honorary member of Boykins Masonic Lodge.

   He was graduate of the College of William and Mary and a member of Sigma 
Phi Epsilon fraternity.

   He is survived by a son, John Y. Mason, Jr. of Richmond; a foster son, 
Garrett Hughes Turner of Richmond; a brother, Dr. Drewry H. Mason, and a 
sister, Miss Carrie Mason, both of Ridgeway; and three grandchildren.


John Young MASON, Sr., retired principal of Boykins H.S., 
former Boykins town councilman, 
Sussex Co. native, d. 9 Jun 1966, Richmond, age 78, 
interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 3, Section J, Plot 12*), Boykins, 
   12 Jun 1966, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 16, 1966, p. 7 

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

His wife's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 17, 1960, sect.2, p.3) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/m250a1ob.txt 

His parents are buried in Thomas Memorial Baptist Church Cemetery, Drewryville.
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Drewryville list (D-20): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/drewryvl.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," July 26, 1935, p. 5) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/m250c1ob.txt 


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