This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MASON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Cl.2ADI/876 Message Board Post: Obit from July 29, 2002, Kansas City Star: VERNON DALE MASON Vernon Dale Mason, 81, of Lee's Summit, MO, passed away Sunday morning, July 28, 2002, at his home. The son of Fred and Minnie Tubbs Mason, he was born July 8, 1921, in Corydon, IA. On December 21, 1944, in Princeton, MO, he married Dorothy Zaring and she survives. Also surviving are two daughters and a son-in-law, Verna Eddy of Grandview, MO, and Linda and Larry Durbin of Kansas City, MO; one son and daughter-in-law, Allen and Robin Mason of Kansas City, MO; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two great-great- grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Vernon retired from the U.S. Air Force after 21 years of service as a Senior Master Sergeant Air Controller. He was a veteran of World War II and the Korean Conflict, where he served in Japan and the Philippines. Following service, he moved to Milan and later to Kansas City, where he was employed with Hallmark Cards for 21 years as night supervisor of security. He was a member of the Grandview Methodist Church. Ve! rnon was a loving husband of 57 years and a loving father of his three children. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at Schoene- Ruschmeier Funeral Home, Milan, MO. Graveside services with military rites will follow at 2:30 p.m. at the New York Cemetery in Russell, IA. Family visitation will be one hour before service time on Tuesday at the funeral home. For the loving care they provided, the family suggests memorials in his memory to Heartland Hospice, 4435 Main St., Suite 100, Kansas City, MO 64111-1825.