norman mason recollections
"Uncle Norm died on April 3, 1953. That was about six weeks before Grandma Mason died. She was ill at the time, and was not told that Norm had died, as I remember. Horace, my father, went to Chicago and was there six weeks or more until after Grandma died." - from an e-mail to Russ Mason from Florence Roberts (June, 2013)
Ida Frances Marshall's recollections of her Uncle Norm...
Norm was the second oldest of the Mason family. He was asthmatic and his mother took him to Upper Michigan every summer because the air was cleaner.
He came to Colorado when he and Ralph homesteaded at Owl Creek and he lived there for a number of years but I don’t know just when he left.
He married Ila Cross whose brother was at Colorado A&M in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Florence Roberts may have more information on Ila. She worked for the Los Angeles County (California) Welfare Department and retired from that department. She and Uncle Norm lived in several towns in that area but the one I remember most was Alhambra.
During the 1930’s Norm came to North Park and worked for my dad, Horace, for one year as work was scarce in the L.A. area. That is what I remember most about Norm. He played board games with us and we had fun doing that. He then went back to L.A. and worked in a foundry, I believe. He sent my dad a copper ash tray that he made.
Norm died in 1953. Florence Little went to the funeral.
My mother, Lucy Mason, and I went to see Ila Mason in 1981. She lived in Oaji, California at Mim’s Manor, a residence for “well oldsters.” She was past 90 at the time. We were not there long. Lucy was really sad about that visit as she knew that was the last time they would be together. Mom and I had been to visit Heidi in LA where Heidi lived at that time.
Norm was the second oldest of the Mason family. He was asthmatic and his mother took him to Upper Michigan every summer because the air was cleaner.
He came to Colorado when he and Ralph homesteaded at Owl Creek and he lived there for a number of years but I don’t know just when he left.
He married Ila Cross whose brother was at Colorado A&M in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Florence Roberts may have more information on Ila. She worked for the Los Angeles County (California) Welfare Department and retired from that department. She and Uncle Norm lived in several towns in that area but the one I remember most was Alhambra.
During the 1930’s Norm came to North Park and worked for my dad, Horace, for one year as work was scarce in the L.A. area. That is what I remember most about Norm. He played board games with us and we had fun doing that. He then went back to L.A. and worked in a foundry, I believe. He sent my dad a copper ash tray that he made.
Norm died in 1953. Florence Little went to the funeral.
My mother, Lucy Mason, and I went to see Ila Mason in 1981. She lived in Oaji, California at Mim’s Manor, a residence for “well oldsters.” She was past 90 at the time. We were not there long. Lucy was really sad about that visit as she knew that was the last time they would be together. Mom and I had been to visit Heidi in LA where Heidi lived at that time.