Harry B. Mason 1902-1975

MASON, HENDERSEN, KENNEDY, BENNETT, WIERSEMA, FINCH

Posted By: Michael J. Kearney (email)
Date: 10/7/2007 at 16:19:51

The Clinton Herald Thursday November 13, 1975 p. 14 Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in St. Patrick's Church for Harry B. Mason, 73, 427 1/2 3rd Ave. N., who died Wednesday in Mercy Hospital. The Rev. Joseph Kokjohn will officiate. A prayer service will precede the Mass at 10:30 a.m. at Snyder-Schmitz Funeral Home. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery. Visitation will be after 7 p.m. today and after 2 p.m. Friday at the funeral home, where the parish Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Friday. Pallbearers, all nephews, will be Robert Shepherd, Louis Judd, John Kustes, Jr., Randy Kustes, Wayne Wiersema, Edward K. Kennedy, Donald Davis and Leland Flynn. Mr. Mason was born Nov. 3, 1902, near Monmouth, the son of Melvin and Emma Hendersen Mason. He married Bernice Kennedy, March 17, 1928, in Clinton. He retired in 1967 from Clinton Corn Processing Company after 38 years employment, and was a member of the company's 25-years club. He was a member of St. Patrick's Church, FOE and Royal Neighbors Camp No. 501. Survivors include his widow; one brother, Dillon of Colton, Ore.; three sisters, Mrs. Edna Bennett and Mrs. Clarence (Goldie) Wiersema, both of Fulton, and Mrs. Mary Finch of Clinton. He was preceded in death by one brother and three sisters.