CLEVELAND, OH – Funeral services will be at the F.D. Mason Memorial Funeral Home Inc., Youngstown, Ohio on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 at noon for Mary L. Atwood.

Mary Louise Atwood, 65, the daughter of the late Prince and Mary Clinkscale Bess, was born June 25, 1946, in Youngstown, Ohio. (Mahoning County)

Mary stepped out of time into eternity on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, at the Menorah Park Center. Beachwood - Cleveland, Ohio

Mary met and later married her husband, John Henry Atwood in Youngstown, Ohio. She was the “mother of their only daughter, Jenean Atwood Baynes.

Mary worked in sales and accounting for May Co./Kaufmann’s Department Store for over 20 years.
In her later years, she was also a volunteer at the Intergenerational School, where she helped children learn to read.

Left behind to cherish her memory, until they meet again are her husband, John Henry Atwood; her daughter, Jenean Atwood Baynes and son-in-law, Garry Baynes of Los Angeles; one brother, Hussie Bess of Missouri; a host of nieces, nephews and countless other loving relatives and friends.

Mary was preceded in death by her sisters, Freddie Mae Henry and Norma Jean Bess Gregory; and brothers Ronald and Varner Bess.
Friends may call from 11 a.m. to noon on Thursday at the funeral home.
Link to photo below:

http://www.vindy.com/news/tributes/2012/feb/07/mary-l-atwoo/

Mahoning
Cuyahoga
27100 Cedar Rd Beachwood, Oh

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SEE Another post on this Bess site
Prince is my grandfather who was born in Arkansas
in 1917. He was in the Army during the war.
He lived in
St. Louis for a small amt of time. He has two sons Hershey and Varner
He later moved to Youngstown Ohio where he married Mary V. Clinkscale and they had Freddie Mae, Mary L., Norma Jean(Tinnee) and Ronald E.
I would like to know anything about my great-grandparents or my great-great grandparents
that I believe helped to raise him.
I know he was the oldest of maybe 6 brothers and
sisters....Please help if you have any info


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