Bee Hampton Sumter Bass, Jr.

1919 - 1996  (76 years)

• Name	Bee Hampton Sumter Bass
  Suffix	Jr.
  Birth	28 Sep 1919
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 May 1996
  Burial	Oakridge Cemetery, Clarksdale, Coahoma County, Mississippi
  Notes	The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, Thursday, May 2, 1996 B. Hampton Sumter Bass CLARKSDALE - B. Hampton Sumter Bass Jr., 76, founder and retired owner of KBH Corp., died of heart failure Wednesday at Northwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at First United Methodist Church of Clarksdale, where he was a member, with burial in Oakridge Cemetery. Nowell Funeral Home here has charge. He had attended flight school at the University of Chattanooga and was a P47 fighter pilot in the Army Air Forces during World War II. He also was a retired planter. Mr. Bass, the husband of Elke Ossenbrink Bass, also leaves two daughters, Beverly Ann Bass Hegwood of Pine Bluff, Ark., and Ann Elizabeth 'Dibbie' Bass Foy of Memphis; two brothers, Lee Horace Bass and Jimmy Willard Bass, both of Lula; 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to the B. H. Bass Fund for Excellence and the KBH Research and Development Fund in care of Mississippi State University or to First United Methodist Church.
  Person ID	I60257	1A William Bassett of Plymouth
  Last Modified	16 Oct 2022

  
  

  Father	Bee Hampton Bass,   b. 26 Jul 1890, Pontotoc County, Mississippi d. 2 Jan 1971, Lula, Coahoma County, Mississippi (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Lula Lee Davenport,   b. 1894   d. 1978 (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F20298	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ann Harris,   b. 29 Sep 1920, Humboldt, Tennessee d. 29 Jun 2016 (Age 95 years)
  Children	1. Bee Hampton Bass, III,   b. 27 Jun 1946   d. 24 Jan 1996 (Age 49 years)
  Family ID	F844	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Oct 2022