B. NEWIT BASS

 

1959

Funeral services for B. Newit Bass, 75, Princeton, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Colvin and Son Chapel with the Rev. Newton Jones in charge.  Interment follows in IOOF Cemetery.

 

Mr. Bass, a former member of the Princeton Police Dept. died at 2:45 p.m. Saturday of a heart attack enroute to Gibson General Hospital.  He was stricken while in the home of a son, Hollis, Owensville.  Mr. Bass had been in ill health for several months.

 

Born March 20, 1884, in Pike County near Stendal, Mr. Bass had lived in Princeton the past 50 years.  He was a member of the Princeton Memorial Methodist Church.  His father, Grace M., died Jan 30, 1959.

 

Survivors include another son, Harold S., Princeton; a brother, John D., Princeton; a sister, Mrs. Alva Chambers, Lynnville; four grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Alva Chambers, Lynnville; four grandchildren, Richard Bass, Princeton, Mrs. William Hedge, Ft. Branch, Mrs Robert Jones, Mt. Carmel and Robert Bass, Owensville; and five great grandchildren.

 

Friends may call at the funeral home today.

 

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Originally submitted by Betty Sellers