Era Amanda Nethery

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Name Era Mason
Event Type Death
Event Date 26 Oct 1974
Event Place Hemphill, Sabine, Texas, United States
Gender Female
Marital Status Widowed
Birth Date 22 Jun 1893
Birthplace , Texas
Father's Name C A Nethery
Mother's Name Amanda Speights
Certificate Number 77676
GS Film number 2243402
Digital Folder Number 005145708
Image Number 02427

Citing this Record:
"Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K38Q-CRZ : accessed 23 Nov 2013), Era Mason, 26 Oct 1974; citing certificate number 77676, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2243402.

Era married Napoleon Bonaparte "Pole" Mason, Jr. before 1913. Napoleon (son of Napolean Bonaparte Mason and Mary Bethany "Susan" Terry) was born on 25 Nov 1892 in Yellowpine, Sabine County, Texas; died on 3 Apr 1959 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Milam Cemetery, Milam, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Obituary, from FindAGrave:

Cleon N. Mason, 90, Topeka, died Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at a Topeka hospice house. Mr. Mason was a clerk for Santa Fe Railway for more than 27 years and he had operated Mason Greenhouse since 1974. He served in the Army Air Corps 8th Air Force in England during World War II.

He was born Dec. 10, 1912, in Milam, Texas, to Napoleon and Era Nethery Mason. He had lived in Topeka since 1941. Mr. Mason was a member of Disabled American Veterans, Capitol Post No. 1 of the American Legion, and he was a charter member of Bethel Baptist Church. He married Mary E. Lesser on Nov. 4, 1942, in Topeka. She died on Feb. 4, 1999. Survivors include two sons, a brother, a sister, six grandchildren; one great-grandson; and one stepgreat-grandson. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Davidson Funeral Home. Burial will be in Rochester Cemetery.

Notes:

Mrs. Louise Wood was the informant on the 1974 death certificate of her mother.