Hugh Thomas Mayberry Jr.

MR MAYBERRY WAS BORN IN SPARTA TN ON JUNE 17TH 1944 TO HUGH THOMAS MAYBERRY SR. AND ELIZABETH CLOUSE. HE ATTENDED CUMMINGS CHAPEL, AND HICKORY VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN TN, BEFORE MOVING TO DALLAS TX, WITH HIS FAMILYIN 1955. HE HAD A PAPER ROUTE WITH THE DALLAS TIMES HEARLD FROM 1956 THROUGH 1958. THEN FOUND A GROCERY STORE CLERK JOB WITH MINYARDS FOOD STORES FROM 1958 THROUGH 1962 UNTIL HIS HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION FROM THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL IN DALLAS TEXAS.HIS FIRST FULL TIME JOB CAME WITH VARO INC IN GARLAND TX, THE MADE NIGHT VISION OPTICS FOR THE GOVEMENT THEN AS AN MACHINE EGRAVER WITH TECHNICUT ENGRAVING INC, IN DALLAS HE LEFT THAT FOR A SUPERVISORY JOB WITH TITCHE GOETTINGER DEPARTMENT STORE A DIVISION OF ALLIED STORES OF NYC, HE WENT BACK INTO THE GROCERY STORE BUSINESS WITH CULLUM COMPANIES "TOM THUMB" STORES IN DALLAS ATTAINING A STORE MANAGER POSITION IN 1980. HE HAD MARRIED MISS CAROL ANN FRY IN 1975 AND THEY HAD A DAUGHTER SYDNEY KAY IN 1975. IN 1980 HE AND CAROL , OPENED A PAWN SHOP WHICH THEY OPERATED UNTIL 1998 IT WAS VERY SUCESSFUL, HOWEVER IN 1997 MR MAYBERRY SUFFERED A BAD HEART ATTACK AND ANOTHER IN 1998 REQUIRING OPEN HEART SURGERY,THIS TIME WHILE UNDERGOING THE OPEN HEART HEART SURGERY HE SUFFERED A STROKE LEADING THEM TO SELL THE PAWN SHOP CAROL WENT BACK TO WORK AS A HAIR DRESSER, HUGH TRIED WORKING PART TIME AT A DEPARTMENT STORE, MERYVNS BUT JUST WAS TOO WEAK FROM THE HEART ATTACKS AND STROKES TO CONTINUE HE WAS DECLARED DISABLED IN JUNE 1998.. IN JUNE 2009 CAROL PASSED AWAY. HUGH STARTED HIS MASONIC CAREER AT SEAGOVILLE MASONIC LODGE #654 IN 1968 WHERE HE WAS ELECTED WORSHIPFUL MASTER FOR 1997 AND 1998 ALSO JOINING THE SCOTTISH RITE AND HELLA TEMPLE SHRINE IN 1968. DUE TO HIS HEALTH PROBLEMS HE THEN MOVED HIS MEMBERSHIP TO THE JOHN C PELT MASONIC LODGE #1321 IN DUNCANVILLE TX. SERVING AS WORSHIPFUL MASTER FROM 2008 AND 2009 AND EARNING THE GOLDEN TROWEL AWARD. MR MAYBERRY WAS A PAST PRESIDENT OF THE HIGH NOON CLUB OF DALLAS AND WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE GREATER SOUTHWEST SHRINE CLUB. FOR 2014, ALSO A 32 DEGREE MASON IN THE SCOTTISH RITE VALLEY OF DALLAS, AND A YORK RITE MASON, AFFLIATED WITH THE MIDLOTHIAN TEXAS 211 R.A.M.. MR MAYBERRY IS SURVIVED BY HIS STEP SON JEFFERY WAYNE PAULK OF STEPHENVILLE, TX DAUGHTER SYDNEY KAY MAYBERRY OF DUNCANVILLE, AND MANY COUSINS IN TENNESSEE, AND JERRY WOODS, AND WIFE LINDA OF GARLAND TEXAS HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DUNCANVILLE TEXAS, AND CHAPLIN OF JOHN C PELT MASONIC LODGE IN DUNCANVILLE TX. MR MAYBERRY WAS BAPTIZED IN SPARTA TN 1954 BY BROTHER JACK TURNER. PASTOR AT PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST CHURCH ACROSS THE ROAD FROM HIS HOUSE MR MAYBERRY WAS VERY FOND OF JOHNNY MCPEAK, HIS CLOSEST NEIGHBOR IN SPARTA AND HIS DAUGHTERS LAUREEN, ERNESTINE,AND CLATADELL AND SPENT MANY HOURS WITH THEM..