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- Greensboro Daily News
North Carolina
Sunday, August 24, 1952
Miss Spence Bride Of Mr. Bass In Manchester Rites
Fayetteville, August 23 - Miss Metta May Spence, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Oscar Spence of Overhills, became the bride of Thomas Van Nathan Bass, son of Dr. and Mrs. William Roy Bass of Louisburg, this morning at 11 o’clock, in Manchester Presbyterian Church of the Covenant. Reverend Arthur D. Carswell, pastor, used the double ring ceremony. Music was presented by Stanley R. Waterfield, organist, and Miss Sara Ann Blalock, soloist.
Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a gown of embroidered Swiss organdy featuring a fitted bodice designed with Peter Pan collar and bracelet length sleeves, and full, five-tiered skirt extending into a chapel-length train. Her fingertip veil was draped from a Juliet cap of net and velvet with small clusters of lilies of the valley on either side. She carried a cascade arrangement of calla lilies.
Miss Dorothy Jean Bruce of Overhills, maid of honor, wore a dress of baby blue dotted swiss over white taffeta. She carried a garden basket filled with white daisies.
Bridesmaids were Misses Virginia Bass of Louisburg, sister of the bridegroom, Nancy Kistler of Charlotte and Betsy Cannady of Richlands, and Mrs. Holloway Thomas of Sanford. Their dresses and accessories were identical to those of the maid of honor. They carried garden baskets filled with pastel daisies.
Charles Bass of Louisburg was his brother’s best man. Ushers were Cadet William Spence, United States Coast Guard Academy, brother of the bride; Dewey Evans of Raleigh, Edgar Lee Perry and J. Marion Grainger, Jr., of Louisburg.
Mrs. Bass is a graduate of Campbell College and Meredith College. Mr. Bass is a 1951 graduate of State College, Raleigh.
For traveling, the bride wore a wheat colored silk faille suit trimmed with brown velvet and all brown velvet accessories. She wore a corsage of baby calla lilies.
After September 1, the couple will be at home in Laurinburg, where Mrs. Bass will be on the faculty of the Laurinburg city schools. Mr. Bass is office manager of the McNair Yield-Tested Seed company in Laurinburg.
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Bassett Family Association Database
d. 23 Apr 2013, Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina