Lois Larsen Mason

Lois Mason died peacefully in her sleep early on May 2, 2022, at the age of 92. She was born on the Crow Indian Reservation, in Hardin, Montana on November 5th, 1929, to parents Carl Larsen, and Bernadine Clinton. The daughter of a cattle rancher, Lois lived her early years on the sprawling plains of Montana where chickens and horses were her best friends. She then moved to Billings with her mother where she spent her formative years, making lasting friends for life. She attended the University of Montana at Bozeman where she received her master’s degree in nursing. She went on to have a twenty-year career in nursing, assisting some of the top surgeons at M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas. After graduating from the University in Bozeman where she was a member of Gamma Delta Sorority, Lois returned to Billings to help her mother and grandparents, working as an instructor at Billings Deaconess Hospital. She soon became enamored with a young geologist who rented her mother’s basement apartment. Robert Clifton Mason and Lois Clara Larsen were married on October 25th, 1952, and at the time of Lois’ passing, they were just a few months shy of their 70th wedding anniversary. Robert and Lois followed the “Trek of an Oil Finder and His Bride” living in Billings, Montana, Lafayette, Louisiana, and Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and finally settling in Houston, Texas where they raised two children. Lois was an accomplished classical pianist, and she enjoyed oil painting and sewing her own clothes. She was also a master of Sudoku. She was preceded in death by her son, David Clinton Mason, and is survived by her husband, Robert Clifton, Mason, of Houston, Texas, her daughter Anne Vivienne Mason of Austin, Texas, and her granddaughter, Melody Grace Clifford also of Austin, Texas, and her beloved Norwegian Forest cat: Higgins.