‘I Had Fallen In Love And It Was All Over Then’

BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY | Special to the Birmingham Times DELOIS AND DONALD MASON Sr. Live: McCalla Married: June 15, 1974 Met: June 1970, in Roosevelt City, a Birmingham area neighborhood. Delois had just graduated from George Washington Carver High School and had moved in with her father. To pass time, she would sit on the front porch and people watch. One person caught her eye day after day. “I used to see this fine gentleman pass by every day and I would sit on my porch waiting for the day he would stop and say something but he never would. He just kept riding by, smiling and waving,” Delois said. “So one day I decided to ask a friend of mine who this guy was and [described Donald and his car] and he told me Donald lived in the projects… and I told him I needed him to carry me down to [Donald’s] house because I was tired of him passing by and not saying anything, and my friend told me ‘you don’t really want to meet Donald, he’s squarer than a cardboard box’, and I said ‘That’s alright, I’ll round him out’…,” she laughed. “When I got down there...