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- Nashua Telegraph, New Hampshire, Monday, 27 September 1976
Helen Bassett
WILTON ? Funeral services for Mrs. Helen Bradford Bassett, 76, of Route 101, West Wilton, were held this morning in the Nelson Funeral home conducted by Rev. Edward C. Dahl of the Congregational Church of Peterborough.
Burial followed in Oak Grove Cemetery in Plymouth, Mass., conducted by the Rev. Horace L. Batchelder, pastor of the First Parish Unitarian ? Universalist of Plymouth, Mass.
Mrs. Bassett died last Saturday evening at her home on Route 101 in West Wilton after a long illness. She was born in Melrose, Mass., Sept. 11, 1900, daughter of the late Henry M. and Bertha L. (Dillaway) Dean and had resided in Wilton for several years.
She was a member of the American Association of Retired Person, Historical Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of American Colonies, all of Peterborough; Unitarian Church Circle, Wilton Senior Citizens Club; and the Garden Club, all of Wilton; the N.H. Mayflower Society; National Howland Society, Daughters of the Founders and Patriots of N.H.; National Bradford Society; Daughters of Colonial Wars and the Society of N.H. Huguenots.
Members of her family include her husband, Col. William H. Bassett of Wilton; two sons, William H. Bassett III, and Dean W. Bassett, both of Scarsdale, New York; a daughters, Mrs. Allen (Louise) Rugg of Greenfield, Mass.; eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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