Transcription of obituary from Port Angeles Evening News, Jun 29, 1937

Funeral services were held at 1pm Monday from the Christman Funeral Parlors of Mrs. Eudora Hall Mason, state and Clallam County pioneer, who died on Saturday morning, June 26^th, at the age of 74. Rev. Virgil Kraft of the Trinity Methodist Church at Sequim read the service, after which members of the Degee of Honor paid their respects with a service of memory.

Pall bearers were Clarence Forsberg, J P Christensen, William J. Ware, E L Clark, William B Smith, and Percy Bork. William D Welsh sang "Abide With Me" and "Out of the Dust" with Mrs. James Brayton of Sequim playing accompaniment.

Eudora Hall was born in Indiana May 4, 1863. She came west with her parents at the age of 2. Her father, Isaac M. Hall, was one of the first to practice law in Seattle, which city was then a small seaport village of a few hundred people and he was the first probate judge in Washington Territory. Her mother, Laura Etta [Crane]Hall, always was active and interested in civic affairs, and went to Olympia with one of the first delegations to work for Woman Suffrage. She was married a second time to Mr. Charles Peters and together with Mr. Peters helped to form and develop the co-operative colony [Puget Sound Cooperative Colony] which has grown into the splendid city of Port Angeles. Eudora Hall, Mrs. Peters' daughter, accompanied them. Eudora's girlhood was spent in Seattle where she gave much pleasure and happiness to the little community with an unusual musical ability which she developed at an early age.

In 1889 she was married in Port Angeles to Luther A Mason, who died in 1912 at the family home in Ellensburg. To this union 5 children were born, 2 dying in infancy. The surviving children are Laurence Luther Mason, Lois Eudora Moir and Nell Elizabeth Jeffs.

Mrs. Mason's entire life was devoted to music. Besides teaching music, she was a leader and member of various orchestras. She conducted a studio of piano in Ellensburg, Seattle, and for many years in Port Angeles.

Submitted by Stacey Davis November 3, 2000