Robert T. Mason

ROBERT TYRONE MASON, FIRST BORN SON OF ROBERT AND DOROTHY MASON WAS BORN ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1953 AT METHODIST HOSPITAL, GARY, INDIANA. THREE YEARS LATER, ROBERT WAS BLESSED WITH A LITTLE SISTER, MARCENIA “PENNY”, WHOM HE TRULY ADORED. AT AN EARLY AGE, BOB DEVELOPED A LIFE-LONG LOVE FOR FISHING. A LOVE THAT HE WOULD SHARE WITH HIS CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. HE OFTEN WENT WITH CLOSE FRIENDS FISHING IN INDIANA, MICHIGAN, AND OHIO. DURING HIS MIDDLE SCHOOL YEARS, BOB JOINED THE MARCHING BAND PLAYING THE BARITONE AT FROEBEL SCHOOL WHERE HE BONDED WITH THREE OF HIS LIFELONG FRIENDS, ROBERT “BOB” ASKEW, KENNETH LAMAR, AND CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS. EVEN THOUGH THE FOUR FRIENDS ATTENDED DIFFERENT HIGH SCHOOLS, THEIR BOND WAS SO STRONG THAT THEY WOULD MEET AT EACH OTHER’S HOMES TO PLAY BID-WHIST AND PRACTICE DANCE MOVES AS THEY EMBARKED ON THEIR DATING YEARS. AS A GRADUATE OF WEST SIDE HIGH SCHOOL, BOB MARRIED A FELLOW SCHOOL MATE, GWENDOLYN MARIE ROBY. TO THIS UNION HE HAD TWO GIRLS; STACEY MARIE AND ROBIN DELYNN. IN TIME, BOB FELT THAT GARY NO LONGER SEEMED LIKED HOME AND MOVED TO NEARBY MICHIGAN CITY WHERE HE BEGAN A NEW JOB. AFTER SETTLING INTO MICHIGAN CITY LIFE, BOB TRAVELLED TO TEXAS WHERE HE MARRIED VANITA MOORE, THE MOTHER OF HIS ONLY SON, ADAM TYRONE. AFTER HIS SECOND MARRIAGE, BOB RETURNED TO MICHIGAN CITY WHERE HE MET TRACY MORRIS WHO WOULD BECOME HIS LIFELONG MARRIED PARTNER AS WELL AS THE MOTHER OF THEIR DAUGHTER, COURTNEE CHANEL. BOB ALSO WAS A FATHER FIGURE TO TRACY’S TWO CHILDREN, DEMETRIUS AND RASHEDA. BOB’S MOST CONSISTENT GOAL THROUGHOUT HIS ADULT LIFE WAS THE LOVE AND STRENGTH OF HIS FAMILY. BOB, WHO WAS LOVINGLY KNOWN AS “PEE-PAW”, MADE SURE TO CONNECT WITH HIS CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN ON A REGULAR BASIS. IN HIS RETIREMENT, HE AND WIFE, TRACY, RELOCATED TO FLORIDA TO BE NEAR THEIR YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, COURTNEE AND HER CHILDREN, DEMETRIUS AND HIS WIFE CARLA, AND THEIR SON KORY. ON EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 2021, BOB WAS UNEXPECTEDLY CALLED HOME BY THE OUR GOOD LORD AND SAVIOR. HE IS PRECEEDED IN DEATH BY HIS FATHER, ROBERT MASON, MOTHER, DOROTHY MASON WHEATON, AND DAUGHTER, STACEY MARIE PRYOR. HE LEAVES TO CHERISH HIS MEMORY AND CELEBRATE HIS LIFE, LOVING AND DEVOTED WIFE, TRACY OF KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA. DAUGHTER, ROBIN DELYNN (SHANE) BOLDE OF GARY, INDIANA. SON, ADAM TYRONE (TATIANA) MASON OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. DAUGHTER, COURTNEE OF DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA. SISTER, MARCENIA “PENNY” WHEATON OF LEWISVILLE, TEXAS. STEPSON DEMETRIUS (CARLA) MORRIS OF KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA. STEPDAUGHTER, RASHEDA MORRIS OF SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO. NINE GRANDDAUGHTERS; ERICA MADRY, NATIEKA MATHEWS, AMARI PRYOR, MIA BOLDE, LEILA WALTON, ANISSA-RHEA LESCANO, ARALYN LESCANO, ARIELLE LESCANO AND AMAYA LESCANO. TWO GRANDSON’S, ERIC MADRY JR. AND KORY (KAREN) REID JR. THREE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; JAIDA BUTLER, DIONNA BUTLER, AND KIARA STACEY MARIE PALMORE. ONE NEPHEW, CHRISTOPHER (TAMAKIA) WHEATON, ONE NIECE, DHANI MORRIS, AND MANY, MANY FRIENDS. The family will recieve friends on Tuesday April 13, 2021` from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in the funeral home chapel. A funeral service will be conducted at 12:00 PM with Pastor Elton Noel officiating. Interment will follow in Osceola Memory Gardens Cemetery. Arrangeements are under the care of Osceola Memory Gardens Cemetery, Funeral Home and Crematory, 1717 Old Boggy Creek Road, Kissimmee, FL 34744. 407.847.2494. www.osceolamemgds.com.

Robert T. Mason

July 22, 1953 - April 4, 2021