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- The Indianapolis Times, Indiana, Monday, 6 December 1926
George F. Bass Rites Tuesday
Retired Architect Was Pioneer Educator
Funeral services for George Franklin Bass, 81, recently retired architect and known all over Indiana as an educator, who died Sunday at his home, 363 S. Ritter Ave., after a brief illness, will be held at 2 p.m., Tuesday, from the Flanner and Buchanan mortuary. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Bass was born Nov. 19, 1845, in a log cabin near Columbus, and attended Butler College prior to his becoming a teacher in the public schools here. He later became associated with his son, the late Herman L. Bass of Bass, Knowlton and Company, architects, retiring early this year after the son?s death.
He is survived by a son, Walt G. Bass, and two daughters, Miss Mamie L. Bass of Indianapolis and Mrs. Helen Bass Keller of Los Angeles, Cal.; a brother, William H. Bass, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary B. Knowlton and Miss Florence Bass, all of this city.
History of Greater Indianapolis, Volume 2
George F. Bass
During many years George F. Bass was identified with the educational life of Indiana, and his name is also enrolled among the efficient educators of Indianapolis, but he finally resigned from the profession to engage in architectural work. He was born in Bartholomew County, Indiana, November 19, 1945, a son of Thomas Bass and grandson of Nathan Bass. The last named was born in Virginia November 4, 1775, and moving to Kentucky in an early days spent many years there, the latter part of his life being devoted to agricultural pursuits. He died on the 7th of September, 1849, a worthy member of the Baptist Church. He married in Kentucky December 20, 1796, Ruhama Price, who was born in New Jersey, September 30, 1777, and died October 21, 1853. Of the eleven children which were born of their union all lived to man and womanhood and raised families. Thomas W. Bass, the last born of their children, was a native of Kentucky, born July 29, 1819, and he became a miller, carpenter and farmer, while politically he was identified first with the Whigs and later with that party?s successor, the Republicans, voting for both Harrisons for presidents. He married on the 16th of February, 1845, Mary J. Crane, who was born in Franklin County, Indiana, October 4, 1824, and died on the 20th of January 1905. George F. was the first born of their five children, all yet living. The father passed away on the 18th of February, 1895.
George F. Bass attended the Northwestern Christian University, now Butler College, and in 1866 taught his first school, which was in Bartholomew County, Indiana. Afterward he taught in ten different counties of the state, his educational work covering in all twenty-seven years, and his last school was in Indianapolis, where he served as supervising principal. He retired from the profession in June, 1893, after winning a high place for himself in its ranks, and after serving in seventy-eight counties of the state in teacher?s institutes. He passed from a professional to a business life, taking up the work of an architect.
Mr. Bass married Miss Emma V. Wickard July27, 1870. She was born in Butler County, Ohio, May 10, 1855, a daughter of Joseph and Martha (Randall) Wickard, natives respectively of Ohio and of Danville, Vermont. Mrs. Bass was the third born of their eight children, and she became the mother of eight, of whom the five now living are Walt G., Herbert L., Mamie L., Helen A. And Elsie F. Mr. Bass is a member of the Century Club and was its president for one term. He is at present connected with the firm of Herbert L. Bass & Co., Architects, Indianapolis, Indiana.
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