Published in The Rochester News-Sentinel
Thursday, January 10, 1957
Walter Mason
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home for William Walter MASON, 77, who had conducted an abstract business in Rochester for 25 years. Mr. Mason, who resided at 920 Pontiac street, died at 2:45 p.m. Wednesday in Woodlawn hospital, where he had been a patient since Dec. 9.
Death was caused by carcinoma of the lungs and came after an 18-month illness, which had become serious last March.
Born March 29, 1879, in Liking county, O., Mr. Mason moved to the Mt. Olive community in Fulton county in 1901 and had resided in Rochester the past 44 years. He came here from Vermillion county, Ill.
His parents were James T. and Lavina MORRISON MASON and he was married June 29, 1929, in South Bend to Grace S. STINGLY, who survives.
Mr. Mason entered the abstract business with his father-in-law, the late Peter J. STINGLY, in 1931. He continued the business after Mr. Stingly's death until last June, when it was sold to George DEAMER of Rochester. The firm had its inception by Mr. Stingly in 1895.
Mr. Mason was a member of the Grace Methodist church.
Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs. E. E. (Minnie) CRAWFORD, Danville, Ill; Mrs. Olive DAVIS, Collison, Ill.; and Mrs. John (Mabel) TYRRELL, Rochester; one brother, Henry MASON, Danville, Ill., and a number of nieces and nephews.
Dr. Claude YOUNG of the Methodist church will officiate at the last rites and burial will be at the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. today.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1957
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Thursday, January 10, 1957
Walter Mason
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home for William Walter MASON, 77, who had conducted an abstract business in Rochester for 25 years. Mr. Mason, who resided at 920 Pontiac street, died at 2:45 p.m. Wednesday in Woodlawn hospital, where he had been a patient since Dec. 9.
Death was caused by carcinoma of the lungs and came after an 18-month illness, which had become serious last March.
Born March 29, 1879, in Liking county, O., Mr. Mason moved to the Mt. Olive community in Fulton county in 1901 and had resided in Rochester the past 44 years. He came here from Vermillion county, Ill.
His parents were James T. and Lavina MORRISON MASON and he was married June 29, 1929, in South Bend to Grace S. STINGLY, who survives.
Mr. Mason entered the abstract business with his father-in-law, the late Peter J. STINGLY, in 1931. He continued the business after Mr. Stingly's death until last June, when it was sold to George DEAMER of Rochester. The firm had its inception by Mr. Stingly in 1895.
Mr. Mason was a member of the Grace Methodist church.
Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs. E. E. (Minnie) CRAWFORD, Danville, Ill; Mrs. Olive DAVIS, Collison, Ill.; and Mrs. John (Mabel) TYRRELL, Rochester; one brother, Henry MASON, Danville, Ill., and a number of nieces and nephews.
Dr. Claude YOUNG of the Methodist church will officiate at the last rites and burial will be at the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. today.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1957
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Published in The Rochester News-Sentinel
Thursday, January 10, 1957
Walter Mason
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home for William Walter MASON, 77, who had conducted an abstract business in Rochester for 25 years. Mr. Mason, who resided at 920 Pontiac street, died at 2:45 p.m. Wednesday in Woodlawn hospital, where he had been a patient since Dec. 9.
Death was caused by carcinoma of the lungs and came after an 18-month illness, which had become serious last March.
Born March 29, 1879, in Liking county, O., Mr. Mason moved to the Mt. Olive community in Fulton county in 1901 and had resided in Rochester the past 44 years. He came here from Vermillion county, Ill.
His parents were James T. and Lavina MORRISON MASON and he was married June 29, 1929, in South Bend to Grace S. STINGLY, who survives.
Mr. Mason entered the abstract business with his father-in-law, the late Peter J. STINGLY, in 1931. He continued the business after Mr. Stingly's death until last June, when it was sold to George DEAMER of Rochester. The firm had its inception by Mr. Stingly in 1895.
Mr. Mason was a member of the Grace Methodist church.
Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs. E. E. (Minnie) CRAWFORD, Danville, Ill; Mrs. Olive DAVIS, Collison, Ill.; and Mrs. John (Mabel) TYRRELL, Rochester; one brother, Henry MASON, Danville, Ill., and a number of nieces and nephews.
Dr. Claude YOUNG of the Methodist church will officiate at the last rites and burial will be at the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. today.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1957
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Thursday, January 10, 1957
Walter Mason
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home for William Walter MASON, 77, who had conducted an abstract business in Rochester for 25 years. Mr. Mason, who resided at 920 Pontiac street, died at 2:45 p.m. Wednesday in Woodlawn hospital, where he had been a patient since Dec. 9.
Death was caused by carcinoma of the lungs and came after an 18-month illness, which had become serious last March.
Born March 29, 1879, in Liking county, O., Mr. Mason moved to the Mt. Olive community in Fulton county in 1901 and had resided in Rochester the past 44 years. He came here from Vermillion county, Ill.
His parents were James T. and Lavina MORRISON MASON and he was married June 29, 1929, in South Bend to Grace S. STINGLY, who survives.
Mr. Mason entered the abstract business with his father-in-law, the late Peter J. STINGLY, in 1931. He continued the business after Mr. Stingly's death until last June, when it was sold to George DEAMER of Rochester. The firm had its inception by Mr. Stingly in 1895.
Mr. Mason was a member of the Grace Methodist church.
Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs. E. E. (Minnie) CRAWFORD, Danville, Ill; Mrs. Olive DAVIS, Collison, Ill.; and Mrs. John (Mabel) TYRRELL, Rochester; one brother, Henry MASON, Danville, Ill., and a number of nieces and nephews.
Dr. Claude YOUNG of the Methodist church will officiate at the last rites and burial will be at the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. today.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1957
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
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