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- 1930 Federal Census of Mount Vernon, Westchester County, NY (13 Apr 1930)
Rex Bassett 23 M MO IA MO Head Salesman Line-o-???
Marion 23 F NY NY NY Wife
Marianne 10/12 F NY MO NY Daughter
(Living at 24 Atlas Place)
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 10 Jul 1987
Rex Bassett, Inventor, Pilot, 46-year Lauderdale Resident
Services will be today for Rex Bassett, and electronics manufacturer and a resident of Fort Lauderdale for 46 years. Mr. Bassett, 79, and inventor, pilot and pioneer in radio communications, died on Tuesday.
Mr. Bassett moved his electronics business to Fort Lauderdale in 1941 and operated it in the city until his retirement in 1982.
In the early 1940s, he served as Deputy Wing Commander of the Banana River Civil Air Patrol, flying anti-submarine patrol off the Florida coast.
In the 1950s, he extended his business interests to developing real estate in the Bahamas and set up on auxiliary plant in Freeport to manufacture quartz radio crystals for governments and radio amateurs all over the world.
He was a member of the Society of Quiet Birdmen and the Amateur Radio Relay League, was a director of the Radio Club of America and a life member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
He is survived by his wife, Marion; his daughter, Marianne Hendrickson of Pompano Beach; an uncle, Howard Tuttle of Kansas City; three grandchildren, and one great-child.
Funeral services will be at First Christian Church of Wilton Manors today at 2:20 p.m. Burial will be at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens Central, 499 Northwest 27th Ave., Fort Lauderdale.
FLORIDA FAMILY AND PERSONAL HISTORY
VOLUME IV
Rex Bassett, Jr. - In the person of Rex Bassett, Jr., Fort Lauderdale can claim as a resident and engineer and executive who is also one of the nation's leading inventors. Among Mr. Bassett's one hundred and fifty patents are laundry equipment and electric timing devices which have made the task of home-making lighter for millions of Americans. He is the president of two corporations, both of which he transferred to Fort Lauderdale: Rex Bassett, Inc., and the Bassett Research Corporation. In the civic sphere, he has taken a leading part in movements designed to assure the continued progress of his community.
Mr. Bassett was born September 5, 1907, in St. Joseph, Missouri, and attended the public schools of that Midwestern city. He came East with his family, however, in time to complete his high school career at the New Rochelle High School in Weschester County, New York. Thereafter he attended for two years a preparatory school also located at New Rochelle.
Mr. Bassett had formed the two corporations with which his name is identified, in the state of Michigan, and in 1939, he moved both to Fort Lauderdale. He is president of both of these corporations, while his father, Rex Bassett Sr., is secretary of Rex Bassett, Inc. This firm is a manufacturer of electronics equipment for airlines and military service. The Bassett Research Corporation is engaged in research and patent work.
Active in national engineering and technical orgranizations, Mr. Bassett is a member of the Institute of Rado Engineers and the American Radio Relay League. As an aeronautics enthusiast, he is also a member of the Quiet Birdmen, a national organization of pilots; the Sportsman Pilot Association, and the Wings Club of New York City. He has for some time been a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Fort Lauderdale, and is secretary of a more recently formed organization designed to plan Broward County's industrial and agricultural future; the Broward Economic Development Commission.
A professional engineer, Mr. Bassett has for some time been widely recognized for his inventions, among which are the Bendix Home Laundry and the Westinghouse Home Laundry, and electric timing device, and many others, his patents totaling one hundred and fifty. His primary enterprise, Rex Bassett, Inc., is listed in Fort Lauderdale's city directory as a manufacturer of marine and aviation communication equipment and quartz crystals. Its address id 307 Northwest First Avenue, Fort Lauderdale.
Mr. Bassett is a member of the Methodist Church of Fort Lauderdale.
In New Rochelle, New York, September 21, 1928, Rex Bassett, Jr., married Marion Cassidy, and they are the parents of one child, Marianne, born in June, 1929, now attending Florida State University.
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1907 - 1987 (79 years)