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- Lowville Journal and Republican, October 21, 1948
George Tulley Bassett
George T. Bassett, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Bassett, Constableville, a navy veteran of World War II, died Monday evening at 6:30 of infantile paralysis in the Jefferson County sanatorium, Watertown, where he had been a patient since Monday noon.
He had become slightly ill Saturday, but his condition was not then regarded as serious. Saturday afternoon he was taken to the Lewis County General Hospital in Lowville and Sunday noon was placed in an iron lung in the Jefferson County Sanatorium.
Funeral services will be held from the home Thursday with Rev. George Stockdale, Constableville Methodist pastor, officiating. Burial will be made in the Rural Cemetery at Constableville.
Surviving besides his parents are four sisters, Mrs. Ernest (Ruth) Kraeger, Constableville, Mrs. Stanley (Marion) Tuhoski, Turin, Mrs. Charles (June) Beha, West Leyden, and Eleanor, at home, two brothers, James and Albert, at home, his grandmother, Mrs. Millicent Bassett, Port Leyden, and several aunts and uncles and cousins. A brother, Stanley, an army veteran of World War II died April 4, 1945.
George Bassett was born in Turin April 11, 1925, a son of Eugene H. and Anna Tully Bassett. He attended Constableville schools, finishing his senior year at Constableville Central School a year ago last June after returning from overseas service. He was active in extracurricular work.
He enlisted in the Navy at Albany on September 6, 1943 and was sent to Sampson Naval Station for his basic training. In June 1944, he was sent to the Pacific theater of war. His honorable discharge from the Navy came March 29, 1946 at New York City.
He was a member of the Constableville Methodist Church and of the VFW post of Turin.
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