Carolyn Bonney Mason Kelly was the eldest of three daughters (sisters: Alice Evans Mason Elston and Josephine Mason Harrison) born to John Winston Mason and his wife Alice Bonney Mason. She grew up and graduated high school in Enterprise, MS, graduated from MSCW with BS in biology. She met "Kelly" on a blind date during her senior year in Columbus, MS while he was completing B-17 school and preparing to ship off to England for the war. On Kelly's arrival back in the USA, he stopped off in Birminham, AL to ask Carolyn to marry him. When she eloped to Shreveport by rail on the Southerner to marry him, she had not told her parents. They were married by a JOP-Presbyterian minister at the minister's home on Columbia Street with Kelly's friends the Kirklands as witnesses. On that day, they had only seen each other three times face to face. Carolyn and Kelly were parents to son Charles J. Kelly, Jr. and daughters, Jo, Alice and Caroline. They were married over 62 years when Kelly passed in 2006. She succumbed to lymphoma in 2008.
She lived the life of a military wife traveling from one air base and country to another. Carolyn was employed for many years as a medical techologist (ASCP) and she enjoyed her family, her grand and great-grandchildren, her many friends, sewing, knitting, crocheting and bridge. She was a life long Presbyterian and her only outside affiliation was DAR. She was a descendant of Elder William Brewster who came to America on The Mayflower.
In 2001 she was awarded the Carnegie Medal for Heroism by rescuing a drowning woman. She is the oldest woman ever to have received this Medal.
She lived the life of a military wife traveling from one air base and country to another. Carolyn was employed for many years as a medical techologist (ASCP) and she enjoyed her family, her grand and great-grandchildren, her many friends, sewing, knitting, crocheting and bridge. She was a life long Presbyterian and her only outside affiliation was DAR. She was a descendant of Elder William Brewster who came to America on The Mayflower.
In 2001 she was awarded the Carnegie Medal for Heroism by rescuing a drowning woman. She is the oldest woman ever to have received this Medal.
Carolyn Bonney Mason Kelly was the eldest of three daughters (sisters: Alice Evans Mason Elston and Josephine Mason Harrison) born to John Winston Mason and his wife Alice Bonney Mason. She grew up and graduated high school in Enterprise, MS, graduated from MSCW with BS in biology. She met "Kelly" on a blind date during her senior year in Columbus, MS while he was completing B-17 school and preparing to ship off to England for the war. On Kelly's arrival back in the USA, he stopped off in Birminham, AL to ask Carolyn to marry him. When she eloped to Shreveport by rail on the Southerner to marry him, she had not told her parents. They were married by a JOP-Presbyterian minister at the minister's home on Columbia Street with Kelly's friends the Kirklands as witnesses. On that day, they had only seen each other three times face to face. Carolyn and Kelly were parents to son Charles J. Kelly, Jr. and daughters, Jo, Alice and Caroline. They were married over 62 years when Kelly passed in 2006. She succumbed to lymphoma in 2008.
She lived the life of a military wife traveling from one air base and country to another. Carolyn was employed for many years as a medical techologist (ASCP) and she enjoyed her family, her grand and great-grandchildren, her many friends, sewing, knitting, crocheting and bridge. She was a life long Presbyterian and her only outside affiliation was DAR. She was a descendant of Elder William Brewster who came to America on The Mayflower.
In 2001 she was awarded the Carnegie Medal for Heroism by rescuing a drowning woman. She is the oldest woman ever to have received this Medal.
She lived the life of a military wife traveling from one air base and country to another. Carolyn was employed for many years as a medical techologist (ASCP) and she enjoyed her family, her grand and great-grandchildren, her many friends, sewing, knitting, crocheting and bridge. She was a life long Presbyterian and her only outside affiliation was DAR. She was a descendant of Elder William Brewster who came to America on The Mayflower.
In 2001 she was awarded the Carnegie Medal for Heroism by rescuing a drowning woman. She is the oldest woman ever to have received this Medal.
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(her husband's father, grand and greatgrandfather are listed..."all at rest here")
