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The Chronicle Telegram, Elyria, Ohio, January 23, 1957
Attend Weeding
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Bassett attended the wedding of their granddaughter, Miss Sheryl Ann Bassett, and Frank J. Lazzaro Jr. at the home of the bride?s mother, Mrs. Hayden B. Kline, and husband in Shaker Heights Saturday. Other relatives attending from here were Mr. and Mrs. Keith Thornton and family and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Worcester and two children, Billy and Sally. Mrs. Thornton and Mrs. Worcester are aunts of the bride.
1920 Federal Census of Oberlin, Russia Twp., Lorain County, Ohio (6 Jan 1920)
Horace Bassett 23 M OH MI OH Head Carpenter (horses)
Gladys 21 F OH NY OH Wife
Horace 2 9/12 M OH OH OH Son
Maxim 1 4/12 F OH OH OH Daughter
Arola Peabody 18 F OH NY ON Sister-in-law Clerk (office)
1930 Federal Census of Wellington, Lorain County, Ohio
Horace Bassett 32 M OH MI OH Head Lineman for Telephone Co.
Gladys O. 31 F OH OH OH Wife
Horace P. 13 M OH OH OH Son
Maxine M. 11 F OH OH OH Daughter
Former Wellington Man Killed
Wellington – Injuries received in a Saturday night auto smash-up near Mansfield yesterday morning proved fatal to Horace G. Bassett, 37, former Wellington resident.
Mr. Bassett, who had been working as a painter in Jackson, Michigan, died at Mansfield General hospital several hours after the accident in which the car he was driving crashed into a utility pole on Rt. 30-S about five miles west of Mansfield at 10:20 p.m., Saturday.
Death was attributed to internal injuries.
He apparently lost control of the car in rounding a curve, State Highway Patrol officials reported.
Mr. Bassett formerly worked in Elyria as a tree surgeon.
Enroute to Wellington
The victim had been at Galilee for a two-week vacation, and was to return to Wellington to pay a final vacation visit to relatives there when the fatal crash occurred.
Survivors include his wife, Virginia, two daughters Sheryl Ann of Shaker Heights and Sandra Jean of Concord, Tenn.; a son Larry Gilbert, Concord, Tenn.; his parents Mr. and Mrs. Horace Bassett, Wellington; a sister Mrs. Howard Worcester, Wellington; and grandmothers Mrs. D.J. Nelson and Mrs. Gertrude Peabody, both of Wellington.
Funeral services will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday from the Curtis-Truman Funeral Home with Rev. Paul Brown of the Methodist Church officiating.
Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
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