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The Caddo Herald, Texas, Friday, 21 April 1944
Amos K. Bass Dies At His Home in Durant at 6:30 P.M. Wednesday, Aged 68
Caddo and community were saddened when news came that Amos K. Bass was dead, Wednesday eve.
The funeral will be held at 3:00 o?clock in the Presbyterian church Durant; burial in the family plot in Caddo cemetery immediately afterward.
Rev. W.F Pruitt, pastor of the church, will conduct the services.
Pall bearers will be W.M. Fitzgerald, Clarence Dyer, Roy Paul and Boyd Abbott of Durant, and C. N. Witherspoon and John Boland of Caddo.
Survivors are two sons Amos K., Jr., and Lieut. Clark Bass; Misses Dorothy Miles and Polly Bass, and Mrs. Jane McPeron; daughters; Ernest and Henry Bass, brothers, and Mrs. H.T. Styron a sister, of Konawa.
He was married to Miss Eugenia Chinn in 1904. She died in 1919. He married Miss Glayds Williams in 1923, who survives him.
Amos K. Bass was well known to all people hereabouts. Coming to Caddo in 1900, he succeeded marvelously in business. In 1923 he moved to Durant, but at no time did he lose interest in Caddo and her people. He owned much land and property in Bryan and Atoka counties, and had many people on his farms, and furnished them withs supplies as needs arose.
Amos K. Bass was perhaps the most useful man in the county. He had a heart that beat for his fellow men. He helped people to get along; he paid their bills, he gave them work, he furnished a market for their produce.
Warned two years ago that he must quit business, slow down, he said, ?what?s the use of living if I have nothing to do?? That was his philosophy of life: labor and do things. He was a town builder. He loved beautiful things, he bought more paint for this houses than any man in the county. He planted trees and flowers.
In business Amos K. Bass was a man of strictest integrity. He never failed to fulfill a promise. All men relied on his word.
He was a member of the Presbyterian church, the Masonic lodge up to Scottish rite. Was a charter member of the Lions Club.
Amos K. Bass never did things by halves. When he started any thing he died it wholeheartedly. He was never a piker.
Amos K. Bass will be missed by thousands of people, and perhaps his place will never by as fully filled as he did it.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1875 - 1944 (68 years)