J.W. Mason

Funeral services for 77 year old J.W. Mason of Lockney, Texas, will be at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 26, 2010, in the Chapel at Chapel of Hope Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Eunice cemetery, in Eunice, New Mexico. Visitation will be held from 2:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at Chapel of Hope Funeral Home on Tuesday, May 25, 2010.

J.W.Mason was born to Harrison and Beatrice Mason in Amarillo, Texas, on September 9, 1932. He died on May 23, 2010, in W. J. Mangold Hospital, in Lockney, Texas.

He lived and worked with M.R.Machecknies family several years in his youth at Wheatland, New Mexico where he graduated high school. He served in the U.S.Army during the Korean conflict. He was a life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and a member of Eunice Masonic Lodge.

J.W. worked 40 years for the same company which started out as Skelly, then Getty, and then to Texaco. He retired in 1991.

He married Jessie Reed in 1955. They had two daughters, Jo Lene and Jo Ann.

He married Joyce Cotham in 1987 in Brownfield. Texas. They lived in Hobbs, NM from 1987 to 2006 when they moved to Lockney. He enjoyed travelling and fishing.

He was preceded in death by his father Harrison Mason, his mother Beatrice Mason Beevers, stepfather Jake Beevers and brother Donald Joe Mason.

He is survived by his wife, Joyce Mason of Lockney, his daughters Jo Lene Bulman and husband, Roger, Jo Ann Jones and husband Kenny, stepchildren Leah Ann Neal, J.D. Cotham and wife Cinda, Lisa Keenan, and Phil Cotham and wife Cindy.

Also grandchildren Jennifer Harvey and husband Lance, Monica Spalding and husband Gerald, Shelly Dean and husband Heath, and Joshua Jones and wife Erica, and eight greatgrandchildren, eight stepgrandchildren, and ten stepgreatgrandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice Hands of West TX, in Lockney, Texas.

Visitation

Chapel of Hope
3321 N. Dal Paso
Hobbs, NM  88240
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
2:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m.

Service

Funeral Service

Chapel of Hope
3321 N. Dal Paso St.
Hobbs, NM  88240
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
11:00 p.m.

Cemetery

Eunice Cemetery
Eunice, NM  88231

Memorial Contributions

Lockney, TX  79241