Mamie Mason

Mamie Smith Mason worked for Bell South as a phone operator. She married Clarance (CP) Mason and moved from Mayfield, KY to Paducah, KY. They were unable to have children so when her cousin (my grandfather) Thomas Wilson's wife died (Lilian Thacker Wilson during child birth) she took the youngest daughter Anna to raise. The following year Mamie Mason took Anna back to Thayer, MO to visit her family. My dad (Lewis Wilson) told me he ask Mamie Mason if he could also go live with her and she said yes, he went home, collected his few belongings and found her and did not leave her side. My dad went by the name of Lewis Mason until he joined the Navy during WWII and then went back to his legal name. My part of Mamie Mason's family called her Mother Mason. Aunt Anna's family called her "Big Mama". Mother Mason had rental property and a boarding house. My dad told me in the 1930 and 1940 the Paducah Indian base ball team boarded at Mother Mason's home. The home I remember the most was as 327 S 7th St. in Paducah, the city of Paducah bought it from her (Eminent domain) in late 1960 and turned the lot into a parking place for city hall. Without Mother Mason, no telling what would have happened to my dad. God bless you and Mr Mason. Ann Wilson-Britt