Homer Paul Mason (1922 - 2003)

Born 20 Nov 1922 in Doddridge, West Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Annie Mae (Rutland) Mason — married 10 Jul 1945 in Montgomery, Alabama

Descendants

Died 23 Aug 2003 at age 80 in Ellicott City, Howard, Maryland, United States

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Biography

From 1930 US Census, Doddridge Co., WV: "Edd H Mason Head M 39 West Virginia, Blanch M Mason Wife F 34 West Virginia, H Wayne Mason Son M 12 West Virginia, Homer P Mason Son M 7 West Virginia, Mary E Mason Daughter F 3 West Virginia, Thomas J Elliott Father-in-law M 59 West Virginia"

From 1940 US Census, Doddridge Co., WV: "H Edward Mason Head M 49 West Virginia, M Blanche Mason Wife F 44 West Virginia, P Homer Mason Son M 17 West Virginia, E Mary Mason Daughter F 13 West Virginia, J Thomas Elliott Father-in-law M 70 West Virginia"

Homer graduated from Doddridge County High School in 1940.

US ARMY AIR CORPS WW II 11-20-1942 to 11-4-1945 1st Lt., B-24 Liberator bomber pilot with the 15th Army Air Force based in southern Italy. Homer enlisted in Nov. 1942, and trained and flew out of Maxwell Field in Alabama and Moody Field in Valdosta Georgia. He was assigned to the 760 Bomb Sq, 460 Bomb Gp. He also flew with USAF-Res 337th Bomb Sq (Res) out of Gunter AFB, Montgomery, Alabama (96th Bomb Gp (Res) 19th Air Division Bomb) Awarded an Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and four Bronze Battle Stars for his European Theater Ribbon.

Homer attended Alabama Polytechnic Institute in Auburn, AL and graduated in 1948. He was invited to join the Tau Beta Pi honorary engineering association.

After his service in WW II, Homer married Annie Mae Rutland. The lived in Hampton Roads, Virginia until his career took him to Florida.

He worked in a Civil Service Capacity for the Air Force at, then, Cape Canaveral, FL. He earned his Masters in Science from Florida State University. Homer was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Melbourne, FL.

Homer and his family lived in Brevard County, FL from the 1950s until his illness made it necessary for him to move into his daughter's home in Maryland.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMC2-V6M : accessed 11 August 2017), Homer P Mason in household of Edd H Mason, Central, Doddridge, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1, sheet 5B, line 98, family 116, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2530; FHL microfilm 2,342,264.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7CM-6P6 : accessed 11 August 2017), P Homer Mason in household of H Edward Mason, Central Magisterial District, Doddridge, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 9-1, sheet 4B, line 72, family 81, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 4400.

• "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8LF-V1T : 5 December 2014), Homer P Mason, enlisted 20 Nov 1942, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (http://aad.archives.gov : National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 126323, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.

• Airman Rating Records
• Army Air Corp and USAF assignment records.

• WV newspaper article clippings save in family records by his parents.

• "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKMB-C7T1 : 16 July 2015), Homer Paul Mason and Annie Mae Rutland, 10 Jul 1945; citing Montgomery, Alabama, United States, county courthouses, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,888,094.

• Diplomas

• Doddridge County Roots

• US Army Enlistment and Discharge papers

• Letter from Tau Beta Pi, 10-7-1948

• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J1SJ-T2J : 20 May 2014), Homer P Mason, 23 Aug 2003; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

• Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10198912 (Death locate on this site is inaccurate.)