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- Galax Gazette
July 18, 1960
William McKinley Bassett, head of the farflung Bassett Furniture Industries died early Sunday afternoon while driving through Roanoke. He was 68.
Mr. Bassett's wife is the former Gladys Clark, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Clark, of Spring Valley, Grayson County. They were married at the Ebenezer Methodist Church at Spring Valley in 1921 by the late Reverend A.H. Towe, pastor of the church.
Mr. Bassett was born November 10, 1893 to John D. Bassett (who celebrated his 94th birthday Tuesday) and the former Pocahontas Hundley.
History of Virginia, Volume VI (1924)
The American Historical Society, Chicago & New York
John David Bassett is a loyal Virginian who has not found it necessary or expedient to wander from his "native heath" in finding opportunity for large and constructive achievement along industrial lines....
In 1893 Mr. Bassett wedded Miss Pocahontas Hundley, daughter of Captain H.B. Hundley, she having been a successful and popular teacher in the rural schools prior to her marriage. To Mr. and Mrs. Bassett have been born four children: William McKinley Bassett, the eldest of the children, was graduated from the Bassett High School and Blackstone Academy, and thereafter continued his studies in Richmond College and Randolph-Macon College, besides completing a course in the National Business College at Roanoke. When the nation entered the World war he enlisted for service in the United States army, and he was stationed in turn at Fort Thomas, Kentucky; Washington, D.C.; and Camp Lee, Virginia, where he won commission as lieutenant. He was not called overseas, but continued in service until the close of the war. He is now vice president of the J.D. Bassett Manufacturing Company. He has received in the Masonic fraternity the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, besides being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. Blanche Estelle, the elder daughter, received the advantages of Blackstone Institute and Hollins College, and she is now the wife of T.G. Vaughan, secretary and treasurer of the Vaughan- Bassett Furniture Company at Galax. Anne Pocahontas attended the same educational institutions as did her sister, and she is now the wife of T.B. Stanley, a vice president of the Bassett Manufacturing Company. John D., Jr., attended Blackstone Academy, Washington and Lee University and the National Business College at Roanoke, and he is associated with the family manufacturing interests at Bassett. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1894 - 1960 (65 years)
, d. 26 Feb 1965, Virginia