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- Cora Bassett
Lubbock Avalance Journal
April 7, 1984
Crosbyton (Special) - Services for Cora Bassett, 102, widow of Julian Bassett, founder of Crosbyton, are pending with Adams Funeral Home.
Mrs. Bassett, a native of Brunswick, Ohio, died Friday at her home in Crosbyton. She was found dead at 3:15 p.m. in her apartment after suffering a stroke Sunday. She was under the care of a home nursing service.
She took nurse training in Cleveland, Ohio. She married Bassett August 1, 1915, in Manitou, Colorado.
Bassett had come to Crosby County in 1882 as a small boy. He was a cowboy, bronc buster, chuckwagon cook, sheepherder and business representative of the family before investing with the Coonley Brothers of Chicago, in Crosby land.
After founding Crosbyton for settlers of CB Livestock Company land, and building the Crosbyton and South Plains Railroad to bring them from Lubbock railheads, Bassett was a banker and president of the first telephone company here. The Bassetts later traded holdings here for land in Terrell and Val Verde Counties.
Many business ventures took the Bassetts to El Paso, to Gila, New Mexico, and to San Antonio as well as their ranch in Dryden.
After Bassett's death in 1947, Mrs. Bassett lived in San Antonio, returning to Crosbyton in 1982 with two daughters. She lived in a wing of the Smith House while daughters Lois Carpenter and Martha Williams (now deceased) turned the old boarding house into a community restaurant.
Mrs. Bassett was a Methodist.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Carpenter and Betty Newton of Crosbyton; a son, Roger J. of Shreveport, Louisiana; 12 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren.
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