Kern County Obituaries

Frank James Mason

Submitted by Don Stowell; 13 Feb 2008

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Source Unknown; 28 Aug 1952

Rosamond Man Dies in Car	
The discovery Sunday, August 17th of a stalled car on the hill, five miles west of 
Rosamond, revealed the badly decomposed body of Mr. Frank James Mason behind 
the steering wheel of the car.
Mr. Mason, 75 was born October 12, 1876 in Kalamazoo, Mich., and had been 
employed at the Tropico Mine in Rosamond for the past 12 years, as a machinist.
It was while the boys, Charles Johnson Jr., 14 and two of his brothers, Fred 12 and 
Robert 11 were on a hike that they noticed the stalled car having seen it the 
previous week, and so decided to investigate and made the gruesome discovery.
Mason had been missing since August 11 and it is thought he went for a ride in his 
car and became the victim of a heart attack. He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. 
Gertrude Gilinsky of Detroit, Mich., and a sister, Mrs. Hattie Strickling of Kalamazoo, 
Michigan.
The' body was removed to the O'Donnell Funeral Home where services were held 
Friday, August 22. Burial was in the Mojave Cemetery.