Ross Filson of
Mason Co. Dies

PT. PLEASANT - Ross N. Filson, 86, 1825 Jefferson Boulevard, a prominent Point Pleasant businessman, president of the Point Pleasant Building and Loan Company the past eight years, died at 5:30 p.m. Sunday in Pleasant Valley Hospital after a brief illness.

Funeral services were scheduled Wednesday at 2 p.m., at Crow-Hussell Funeral Home. The Rev. Rufus A. Cromartie will be in charge. Burial will follow in the Kirkland Memorial Gardens.

Visitation hours will be after 2 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Mason County Cancer Fund or Pleasant Valley Hospital.

Mr. Filson, who had contributed to his adopted hometown in many ways, was born in Racine, Ohio, March 3, 1888, a son of the late Frank Leslie and Delilah Aumiller Filson.

He was a veteran of World War II; a 50-year member of Point Pleasant Minturn Lodge AF and AM, Masons; and a member of the Point Pleasant Post American Legion 23.

For more than 50 years he was in the theater business in Point Pleasant being the owner and manager of the former Lyric Theater, State Theater and the Mason Drive-In. He had been associated with the Point Pleasant Building and Loan since 1940.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Clara Wartenburg Filson; one daughter, Mrs. Polly A. Adkins, Point Pleasant; three grandchildren, Greg, Bruce and Linda Adkins; a brother, William Filson, Point Pleasant, and a sister, Mrs. Homer G. Martin, local.

Pomeroy Daily Sentinel
August 13, 1974.



Filson Funeral
Is Wednesday

POINT PLEASANT - Service for Ross N. Filson, president of Point Pleasant Building and Loan Assn., will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at Cross-Hussell Funeral Home here.

The Rev. Rufus A. Cromartie will officiate. Burial will be in Kirkland Memorial Gardens, Point Pleasant.

Mr. Filson, 86, of Point Pleasant, died Sunday in Pleasant Valley Hospital.

He was a former owner of the State Theater and the Mason Drive-In. A World War I veteran, Mr. Filson was a member of the Masonic Lodge and American Legion.

Surviving are his wife, Clara Wartenburg Filson; daughter, Mrs. Polly A. Adkins of Point Pleasant; brother, William Filson of Point Pleasant; and a sister, Mrs. Homer G. Martin of Point Pleasant.

Friends may call after 2 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Charleston Gazette
August 13, 1974.

Ross Filson of
Mason Co. Dies

PT. PLEASANT - Ross N. Filson, 86, 1825 Jefferson Boulevard, a prominent Point Pleasant businessman, president of the Point Pleasant Building and Loan Company the past eight years, died at 5:30 p.m. Sunday in Pleasant Valley Hospital after a brief illness.

Funeral services were scheduled Wednesday at 2 p.m., at Crow-Hussell Funeral Home. The Rev. Rufus A. Cromartie will be in charge. Burial will follow in the Kirkland Memorial Gardens.

Visitation hours will be after 2 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Mason County Cancer Fund or Pleasant Valley Hospital.

Mr. Filson, who had contributed to his adopted hometown in many ways, was born in Racine, Ohio, March 3, 1888, a son of the late Frank Leslie and Delilah Aumiller Filson.

He was a veteran of World War II; a 50-year member of Point Pleasant Minturn Lodge AF and AM, Masons; and a member of the Point Pleasant Post American Legion 23.

For more than 50 years he was in the theater business in Point Pleasant being the owner and manager of the former Lyric Theater, State Theater and the Mason Drive-In. He had been associated with the Point Pleasant Building and Loan since 1940.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Clara Wartenburg Filson; one daughter, Mrs. Polly A. Adkins, Point Pleasant; three grandchildren, Greg, Bruce and Linda Adkins; a brother, William Filson, Point Pleasant, and a sister, Mrs. Homer G. Martin, local.

Pomeroy Daily Sentinel
August 13, 1974.



Filson Funeral
Is Wednesday

POINT PLEASANT - Service for Ross N. Filson, president of Point Pleasant Building and Loan Assn., will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at Cross-Hussell Funeral Home here.

The Rev. Rufus A. Cromartie will officiate. Burial will be in Kirkland Memorial Gardens, Point Pleasant.

Mr. Filson, 86, of Point Pleasant, died Sunday in Pleasant Valley Hospital.

He was a former owner of the State Theater and the Mason Drive-In. A World War I veteran, Mr. Filson was a member of the Masonic Lodge and American Legion.

Surviving are his wife, Clara Wartenburg Filson; daughter, Mrs. Polly A. Adkins of Point Pleasant; brother, William Filson of Point Pleasant; and a sister, Mrs. Homer G. Martin of Point Pleasant.

Friends may call after 2 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Charleston Gazette
August 13, 1974.