Mason, Patrick T. 'Pat' 1946-1953
MASON, PRESHO, FOLEY, MCGOWAN, MACKEY, OBRIEN, BARE, CONNELL, MCGONIGLE, CONNELL
Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 8/5/2021 at 20:31:25
Clayton County Register, Thur., 14 May 1953.
Patrick Mason, aged 6, of Marquette, was drowned Friday evening, May 8, when he slipped into Bloody Run creek while picking flowers for his mother. The body was found sometime after the accident by searchers who had been called by the siren when the boy was reported missing
Patrick's body was taken from the water about fifty feet from where he slipped into the stream. Dr. Pfeiffer of McGregor, along with Sheriff Fischer, Deputy Klink and Coroner Tuecke worked for an hour and a half in an attempt to revive the boy, but it was too late.
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Added by S. Ferrall:
Find Body of Boy in Creek
The community was shocked Friday evening when little Pat Mason, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mason, was reported missing. When his family and friends could not find him, an alarm was turned in for help. His body was found by S.W. Tayek in the creek below his home at 8:10 p.m. All efforts to revive him failed.Pat, age 6, who was in the first grade, had returned home from school as usual that afternoon. He played with his brothers and sisters and little friends after school. At supper time, he had brought flowers into the house and mentioned that he could pick some more later.
He was helping to wash the car just a short time before the others noticed that he was missing and it is thought that he had gone to pick more flowers and had slipped and fallen into the creek.
Pat was a happy, active little lad who loved the outdoors.
Patrick Terrance Mason was born at the Beaumont hospital in Prairie du Chien on September 3, 1946, the seventh of nine children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mason.
He leaves to mourn his sudden passing his parents, five brothers, Charlie, Jimmy, Mike, Dennis and Timmie, and three sisters, Marilyn, Carolyn and Mary Kay, all at home; also his grandmother, Mrs. Bernadette Presho and several aunts and uncles.
Funeral services were held Monday at 9 a.m. from St. Mary's church with his great-uncle, Monsignor Wm. F. Mason, of Emmetsburg, singing the mass of the angels. The sermon was delivered by the Rev. Francis Phelan, pastor of St. Mary's. Acolytes were Danny Gordon and Tony Wach, Billy Pilkington and Jimmy Henderson. Burial was in St. Mary's cemetery.
Pallbearers were David and Danny Kluesner, David Matthew, and Joe Gordon, Neal O'Brien and Bob Haugen.
Relatives attending from out of town were: Mgr. W.F. Mason of Emmetsburg, Mary Mason and Mrs. John Foley of Sanborn; Mrs Marcella McGowan and children of Fonda; Mrs. Matt Mackey and John Mackey of Varina; Mr. and Mrs. James O'Brien of Ft. Dodge; Mr. and Mrs. John Bare of Winthrop; Mrs. Elizabeth Connell and daughters, Helen and Mrs. Ethel McGonigle, of Dubuque.
~North Iowa Times, Thursday, May 14, 1953; pg 1
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Same paper & date, pg 6, Marquette-McGregor School notes, 4th Grade:
All of us feel sorry for Jimmy Mason, our classmate, and the rest of his family in the loss of his brother Pat. We are sure he will always have fine memories of a good little brother.
Clayton Obituaries maintained by Sharyl Ferrall.
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