Doris Jean Strickland

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The Sabine County Reporter
June 4, 1997, Page 12

Doris Jean Mason

Doris Jean Mason, 66, of Route 1, Pineland (Strickland Crossing Community), died Friday, May 30, 1997, in a traffic accident in Rosevine. Her mother, Carrie Emma Hayes, also died in the accident.

Mrs. Mason was born Aug. 21, 1930, in Strickland Crossing as a daughter of the late George Strickland and Carie Emma Burns Strickland Hayes. She was a member and past worthy matron of the Order of the Eastern Star and a member of the East Mayfield Baptist Chruch. She was werving as secretary of the Pine Hill Foundatoin.

Survivors: a son, Steven Ray Mason of Hemphill; stepfather, Albert A. Hayes of Hemphill; a step-brother Alvin A. Hayes of Silsbee; and three grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, W. T. "Billy" Mason, on Feb 10, 1997, and a son, Van Thomas Mason, on July 4, 1983.

Joint funeral services for she and her mother were held for she and her daughter at 2 p.m. Sunday at the chapel of Starr Funeral Home Inc. in Hemphill with Bro.Homer WIlliams and Bro. Vance R. Purtell officiating. Interment followed at Pine Hill Cemetery in Sabine County.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, March 2011)

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, March 2011)

Doris married William "Billy" Thomas Mason before 1957. William (son of Napolean Jackson "Dick" Mason and Ethel Jane Rice) was born on 12 Nov 1926 in Texas; died on 10 Feb 1997 in Pineland, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Pine Hill Cemetery, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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His tombstone, at Pine Hill Cemetery, was inscribed "We Love You."