THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, August 16, 1928

 

The sudden passing of George P. Mason at Hendersonville, N. C., last Sunday morning shocked his many friends and acquaintances in Flagler Beach and Bunnell, in both of which places Mr. Mason had been a familiar and active figure for the past four years.

Only a week previous to his death Mr. Mason spent a couple of days in Flagler Beach and at that time he appeared to be in excellent health. Shortly after his final visit to Flagler Beach, he went on a business trip to Hendersonville, where he was taken ill soon after his arrival; and despite the efficient medical aid and nursing he received, the ravages of diabetes, from which disease he had long been a sufferer, had so undermined his vitality that he succumbed after only three days illness.

Mr. Mason was born in Westfield, N. Y., February l, 1863, being 65 years of age at the time of his death. After completing the public school course in his native town, he attended preparatory school and afterwards entered Hamilton College, where he became a member of Chi Psi fraternity. During his school arid college days, he was very active in athletics and won a number of medals as a short distance runner. He retained his interest in sports to the end of his life and was particularly fond of baseball, of which sport he was a keen observer.

For the past eight or ten years Mr. Mason had been a resident of Florida, during which time he was associated in the promotion of several business enterprises. Four years ago he became associated with D. F. Fuquay as the latter's general sales agent in charge of the sale of lots in the Fuquay subdivision in Flagler Beach and remained in that capacity until those properties were entirely sold. Because of his unbounded faith in the future of Flagler Beach, Mr. Mason himself invested largely in Flagler Beach property and two year's ago established his legal residence there, though other matters in which he was interested compelled him to spend most of his time in Jacksonville this past year.

Mr. Mason possessed a forceful and winning personality which, with his unusual ability as a salesman, gained for him a wide circle of friends and an enviable reputation in the field of business promotion and salesmanship in which his activities were employed for a long period of years.

The deceased's sister and only surviving relative, Mrs. H. L. Sears, accompanied by Mr. Sears, left Flagler Beach Sunday afternoon for Hendersonville and brought the body back to Jacksonville Tuesday morning.