John Tredennick Mason (1933-2011)

MASON, TREDENNICK, MASON, FORBES, VAN DEUSEN, PHILLIPS

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 8/5/2012 at 20:27:41

From Adams & Soderstrum Funeral Home obituary, Story County, Iowa:

John Mason

BORN: December 22, 1933
DIED: April 7, 2011
LOCATION: Ames

John Tredennick Mason
1933-2011

John Mason died at the Green Hills Care Center on April 7, 2011. A memorial service will take place at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 13, at Adams Funeral Home.

John Mason was born in Winchester, Massachusetts on December 22, 1933. He was the son Clinton Staples Mason and Linda (Tredennick) Mason.
He was educated at Gould Academy, Bowdoin College, and Tufts University, where he received an M.S. degree in Chemistry. He worked as a metallurgical scientist at Ames Lab, Iowa State University for 33 years, from 1955-1988. He was married to Paula Eaton Mason from 1955 to 1973. They had two children. In 1977, he married Katherine A. Mason.

John also served in the military for 32 years. After training in the ROTC at Bowdoin College, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1957. He served two years of active duty at Fort McClelland, Alabama, and then joined the Iowa National Guard in 1960. In 1992, he retired as a Colonel in the U.S. army and at that time was awarded the honorary rank of Brigadier General.
He was a member of Ames Lions Club, Noon Group. He was Club President, District Governor, and State Council Chairman for Iowa. He was an active member from 1988 to 2009, in recent years serving as club secretary.

John was preceded in death by his parents and Paula Mason. He is survived by: his wife, Katherine Mason; his children John Tredennick Mason, Jr. (Janelle), and Sarah Ashworth Mason (Barry Forbes); two stepdaughters, Sarah Van Deusen Phillips (Rey) and Anna Van Deusen; and five grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to: Green Hills Care Center, Iowa Lions Foundation, or St. Labré Indian School, Ashland, Montana.

Memorial Service

April 13, 2011
11:00 AM
Adams Funeral Home and Cremation Service
502 Douglas Avenue
Ames, IA 50010

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