This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YCB.2ACI/562.2 Message Board Post: TAKEN FROM LAKE CHARLES DAILY AMERICA 12-11-1911 PAGE 4 MICROFILM 4-7 H.G. MASTEN DIES AT NEAME FORMER LAKE CHARLES RESIDENT SUCCOMBS AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS H.G. MASTEN, FORMER CITIZEN OF LAKE CHARLES, AND WELL KNOWN IN THE PARISH DIED YESTERDAY MORNING AT HIS HOME AT NEAME, FOLLOWING A BRIEF ILLNESS. THE DECEASED WAS AGED 54 YEARS. THE FUNERAL WILL TAKE PLACE HERE TOMMOROW MORNING FOLLOWING THE ARRIVAL OF THE REMAINS ON THE KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN TRAIN, DUE AT 8'OC'CLOCK. THE REV. W.W. DRAKE, PASTOR OF THE BROAD STRRET METHODIST CHURCH, WILL OFFICIATE, THE SERVICE TO BE HELD AT THE CHURCH. BURIAL WILL BE MADE AT ORANGE GROVE CEMETERY, AND THE FUNERAL WILL BE IN CHARGE OF LA. CAMP NO. 1, WOODMEN OF THE WORLD, IN WHICH CAMP MR. MASTEN HELD MEMBERSHIP. HE WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF EMMA WEBER GROVE NO. 123, WOODMEN CIRCLE. MR MASTEN LIVED HERE UNTIL SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, WHEN HE TOOK UP HIS RESIDENCE AT NEAME, WHERE HE WAS EMPLOYED BY THE FOUR-C LUMBER COMPANY. HIS DEATH COMES AS A SHOCK TO HIS FAMILY AND TO HIS FRIENDS, MANY OF WHOM SAW HIM IN THE BEST OF HEALTH. THIS IS NOT OF MY OWN WORDS BUT AS IT IS WRITTEN IN LCDAP ON 12-01-1911 HOPE THIS HELP STACEY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TAKEN FROM DAILY AMERICAN PRESS 6-12-1916 MRS. HORACE G. MASTEN'S FUNERAL AT BROAD STREET CHURCH THE FUNERAL OF MRS. MASTEN WIDOW OF THE LATE HORACE G. MASTEN, WHO DIED IN OAKDALE SATURDAY OF STOMACH TROUBLE, WAS HELD FROM THE BROAD STREET M.E. CHURCH YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT 4'O'CLOCK, REV. K. W. DODSON OFFICIATING. INTERMENT TOOK PLACE AT ORANGE GROVE CEMENTARY. MEMBER OF EMMA WEBER GROVE NO. 123, WOODMEN CIRCLE, A MEMBER, ATTENDED IN A BODY AND CONDUCTED SERVICES AT THE CEMETERY. MR. AND MRS. MASTEN WERE RESIDENTS OF LAKE CHARLES FOR SEVERAL YEARS. SHE LEAVES TO CHERISH HER MEMMORIES: 2 SONS MERLIN AND FRED MASTEN (TEAL, NEW MEXICO), 4-DAUGHTERS: MRS. J.S. ABADIE OF WOODWORTH, MRS. M.C. GOFF OF WOODWORTH MISSES NELLIE AND ANNIE MASTEN OF OAKDALE, LA., HOPE THIS HELP STACEY FROM CALCASIEU