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- 1940 Federal Census of South Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina
Lonnie D. Bass - 47 - Male - NC-NC-NC - Head - Farmer
Tempie - 45 - Female - NC-NC-NC - Wife - Keeping House
Bernice - 22 - Male - NC-NC-NC - Son - Farm Laborer on farm
Newberry - 21 - Male - NC-NC-NC - Son - Farm Laborer on farm
Crafton - 19 - Male - NC-NC-NC - Son
Erma - 16 - Female - NC-NC-NC - Daughter
Johnson - 15 - Male - NC-NC-NC - Son
Howard - 14 - Male - NC-NC-NC - Son
Alease - 12 - Female - NC-NC-NC - Daughter
Shelton - 11 - Male - NC-NC-NC - Son
Jackson - 9 - Male - NC-NC-NC - Son
Alice - 6 - Female - NC-NC-NC - Daughter
Milton - 3 - Male - NC-NC-NC - Son
Carl G. - 2 - Male - NC-NC-NC - Son
Wilmington Morning Star
North Carolina
Wednesday, June 23, 1943
Bass - Downs Wedding Held
Clinton, June 22 - Salemburg Baptist Church was the scene of a pretty June wedding Friday afternoon when Miss Sara Catherine Downs, daughter of Prof. and Mrs. Posey E. Downs of Pineland College became the bride of the Reverend Burnice G. Bass, of Clinton. The church was decorated with white candles and tall baskets of gladioli and Queen Anne’s lace, looped with white ribbon, which also marked the seats reserved near the altar.
Before the ceremony Mrs. D.M. Royal at the organ, played McDowell’s “To a Wild Rose,” and the “Andante” movement from Beethovens Fifth Symphony, and Edward Chou, of Chungking, Szechwan province, China, and Bowman Gray school of medicine sang “Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms” and “If God Left Only You”. As the bridal party entered, Mrs. Royal played Victor Herbert’s “Oh, Sweet Mystery of Life”, and the “Bridal Chorus” from Lohengrin. During the ceremony she sofly played “Liebestraum” and for the recessional, Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March”.
The bride was given in marriage by her mother. The ceremony was read by the bride’s father, a Baptist minister; and the bride’s sister, Eloise, also a graduate of Pineland College, was maid-of-honor. A younger sister, Miriam and Mrs. Crotia Bass Warren, Pineland College, were her bridesmaids. Crafton Bass, brother of the bridegroom was best man, and the Reverend Douglas Aldrich, Raleigh, and Cartell Jackson, Roseboro, were ushers.
The bridesmaids wore pink and blue organdy. The bride was dressed in white slipper satin with long fitted bodice, full flowing skirt, three-quarter sleeves, net fingertip veil held by a halo of gardenia buds. She wore a necklace of pearls and carried a bouquet of white roses showered with stephanotis. For her going-away, the bride wore a gown of light-blue summer material with navy accessories, while her corsage was fashioned from the roses in the heart of her bouquet.
Mrs. Bass, a honor student at Pineland College, later attended Meredith College where she made an excellent record. After taking post graduate courses at Wake Forest, she joined the faculty of Lexington high school where she taught English and Bible for two years. The bridegroom is the son of Lonnie D. Bass. He is a recent graduate of Wake Forest College where he was pledged to Delta Kappa Alpha ministerial students’ honorary fraternity. He is pastor of churches in Sampson and Vance counties.
In September the couple will enter the Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, for further study. Following a brief honeymoon they will be at home for the summer in Townesville.
Following the wedding a reception was held in the parlors of Pineland College for the bridal party and a large number of guests. In the morning, the couple were guests at a wedding breakfast at the apartment of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Marshburn on the college campus.
Greensboro Daily News
Thursday, December 12, 1963
B.G. Bass, Clergyman, Dies at 46
Mebane, December 11 - Reverend Burnice G. Bass, 46, of Mebane was dead on arrival at a Burlington hospital this morning after suffering a heart attack.
A native of Sampson County, he was pastor of Mebane First Baptist Church for the past three years. He also was serving as moderator of the Mount Zion Baptist Association and was a past president of the Mebane Ministerial Association. He was a member of the Alamance County Federated Ministerial Association.
Prior to coming to Mebane, he served for six years as pastor of a Baptist Church in Asheville and he served eight years at a Baptist Church in Fair Bluff.
During his undergraduate training, he was a pastor of seven Baptist churches. He was a graduate of Campbell College and Wake Forest College. He received a master of theology degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He also was a member of the Mebane Kiwanis Club.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Sara Downs Bass of the home; two daughters, Caffie Jane and Donna Elane Bass of the home; mother, Mrs. Temple Bass of Clinton; four sisters, Mrs. W.J. Blanchard of Salemburg; Mrs. Joseph B. Compton of Fayetteville, Mrs. Claxton J. Peterson of Clinton and Mrs. Joseph Royall of Salemburg; eight brothers, Newberry Bass of Clinton, Crafton D. Bass of Salemburg, Johnson, Lonnie, and Carl Bass of Clinton, Dr. Shelton T. Bass of Lakeland, Florida, Milton and Howard Bass of Dunn.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Mebane First Baptist Church with Dr. Clyde Chapman officiating. Graveside services will be held at Mount Gilead Baptist Church in Sampson County by Dr. R.E. Marshburn and Dr. Lewis S. Gains.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1917 - 1963 (46 years)