Kate Elizabeth (Hutcheson) Masters (1916 - 2004)

Born 2 Jan 1916 in Highfill, Benton County, Arkansas, United States of America

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Died 9 Aug 2004 at age 88 in Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon, United States of America

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Biography

Kate was born 02 Jan 1916^[1][2] in Arkansas to Walter Hutcheson and Maud S. Franklin.^[3] She passed away on 09 Aug 2004.^[2][4] She is buried in Hawthorne Memorial Gardens, Grant's Pass, Josephine County, Oregon.^[5][6]

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1. ↑ Arkansas Department of Health, birth certificate 113 (1916), Kate Elizabeth Hutcheson, Vital Records, Little Rock, AR.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JG8W-92K : 19 May 2014), Kate E Masters, 09 Aug 2004; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XM26-YVM : 8 December 2015), Kate E Hutcheson in entry for Walter L Hutcheson, 1930.
4. ↑ Oregon Department of Human Services, death certificate 04-018237 (filed 12 August 2004), Kate Elizabeth Masters, Center for Health Statistics, Portland, OR.
5. ↑ Tombstone.
6. ↑ Obituary-

   Kate Elizabeth Masters, 88, of Grants Pass died Monday, Aug. 9, 2004, at Three Rivers Community Hospital.

   Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Hull & Hull Funeral Directors.

   A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at River Valley Community Church, with Dar Wolber and David Mathis, pastors, officiating. Private interment will be at Hawthorne Memorial Gardens.

   Contributions may be made to missionaries in Tanzania, Dwight and Tracy Hensler, in care of River Valley Community Church, 216 N.E. C St., Grants Pass, OR 97526.

   Masters was born Jan. 2, 1916, in Highfill, Ark., where she graduated high school as salutatorian in 1934. She attended the University of Missouri for two years.

   On Aug. 2, 1936, she married J. Lloyd Masters, who died June 25, 1974.

   They raised their children and farmed in Carthage, Mo., until 1951, when they moved to Buena Park, Calif., where they worked for Knott's Berry Farm.

   She worked in quality control in the preserving kitchen until retiring in 1972, when they moved to Grants Pass.

   She was a member of First Baptist Church (now River Valley Community Church). She enjoyed Bible study fellowship, teaching Sunday school, sewing, needlework, gardening and spending time with her family and friends.

   Survivors include a son, L. George Masters of Grants Pass; two daughters, Cathryn L. Adams of Issaquah, Wash., and Carol A. Walker of Kent, Wash.; 10 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.