Personal Life
Raymond Knight Mason was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1927. Raymond and his wife, Minerva were married in 1948 and went to New York City for their honeymoon. They enjoyed New York, and returned so often that in 1972, they purchased one of 75 co-ops at The Pierre, a 41-floor Hotel at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 61st Street that looks like a French chateau. The couple had three children: Raymond, Jr, Varina and Marcy; they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in 2008.
Raymond graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1949 with a B.A. in Economics and immediately took over his family's Jacksonville business, the Mason Lumber Company.
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