Showing posts with label STOGNER Jewel Mason Jr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label STOGNER Jewel Mason Jr. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Tombstone Tuesday: Jewel Mason Stogner Jr





JEWEL "MASON" STOGNER JR
NOV 12, 1972
MAY 11, 2000
A LOVING SON  HUSBAND  FATHER  BROTHER AND UNCLE



Back of Vase:
Son of Doris and Jewel
Bro of Tammy
Uncle of Corey and Casey

Foxworth Cemetery
Foxworth, Marion County, Mississippi

Memorial listed on Find A Grave
Maintained by Susan Bourgoyne
Click here for link


I can not imagine the heartbreak of losing one of my own children.  It has to be the most difficult event a parent has ever faced.  Mason's mother, my Aunt Doris, talked to me briefly about that fateful day.  She said that she was at work and heard sirens screaming as the ambulance passed the store.  She prayed under her breath that it was nothing real serious and that whoever the ambulance was going to see, that person would be okay.  Unfortunately, Aunt Doris learned soon afterward that the ambulance was headed to her son's place.  If my memory is correct, she said that Mason was on the rooftop of his trailer, trying to repair a television antenna.  He was apparently electrocuted by wires attached to the antenna.  Mason's sudden death devastated the family.  He was 27 years old.  No lessons in life can prepare us for such a tragedy and the deep feelings of loss sustained afterward.