Obit – Mrs. Doris Givens Mason
With family at her bedside, Mrs. Doris Givens Mason, a homemaker of the Lancaster Community, was called to be at home with Jesus at 9:35 p.m. Thursday evening April 9, 2026 at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where she had made her home since April 30, 2025. She was pronounced deceased at 11:25 p.m. that evening by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston.
Funeral services by her pastor, Bro. Bobby Peoples and her brother-in-law, Bro. Randy Teat were conducted on Monday morning April 13th at 11:00 a.m. from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Burial followed beside her husband in the Garden of Gethsemane at the Smith County Memorial Gardens.
She was one of seven children, six daughters and a son of the late Clarence Willard Givens who died at the age of 65 on August 18, 1986 and Annie Ruth Grisham who died at the age of 96 on December 23, 2023 and was born Alma Doris Givens in Carthage on June 11, 1945.
Mrs. Mason was preceded in death on October 20, 2020 by a granddaughter, Macie Lynn Shaw who died at the age of 28 and by a sister, Willa Dean Givens Williams who died April 16, 2023 at the age of 74 and by two brothers-in-law, Vietnam Veteran Carter Dickens who died April 19, 1994 at the age of 47 and by Danny Smith Williams who died August 5, 2015 at the age of 68.
She was a 1963 graduate of Smith County High School where her majors were Home Economics and Social Studies and she was a member of the Future Homemakers of America for three years, the Spanish club, band, chorus and Spring Festival. It was written of her in the annual that she was: bubbly, elegant and cordial.
It was stated by her in the “63 yearbook; “Tis what I love, determines how I love”.
At the Smith County Courthouse on October 19, 1963, she was united in marriage to Hickman Community native, William Thayer “Stick” Mason who died November 7, 2014 at the age of 75 following over fifty-one years of marriage.
Mrs. Mason attended the Family Worship Center in Gordonsville.
She was retired as a Certified Nurse Technician at the Quality Center for Rehabilitation and Healing in Lebanon.
Surviving are her two children, Dustin Mason and Tina Mason both of the Lancaster Community; grandson, Peyton Shaw and wife Victoria of Carthage and their children, Thayer and Rinzler Shaw; five siblings, Anita Sansone and husband Paul of Gordonsville, Sue Givens Teat and husband Randy of the Lancaster Community, Kay Kent and husband Al of Saint Louis, Missouri, David Givens and wife Denise of the Defeated Creek Community, Lee Ann Williams and husband Benny of the Chestnut Mound Community, several nieces and nephews and great-nieces and great-nephews.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
