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Reverend Frederick Odell Bass, Sr.

Male 1913 - 1978  (65 years)


Personal Information

  • Name Frederick Odell Bass 
    Prefix Reverend 
    Suffix Sr. 
    Born 11 Jan 1913  Durham, Durham County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    _UID 60B3A6BB56F270469913ECFF4C025F702688 
    Died 17 Jan 1978  High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Carolina Biblical Gardens, High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 

    • Greensboro Daily News
      North Carolina
      Friday, January 20, 1978
      Mount Vernon Church Minister Dies
      High Point - Reverend Fredrick Odell Bass Sr. of 1018 Meadowbrook Boulevard died Tuesday morning at High Point Memorial Hospital.
      Funeral will be 2 p.m. today at Mount Vernon Baptist Church, where he was a minister, with the Reverend James Ballard officiating. Burial will be at Carolina Biblical Gardens.
      A native of Durham, he graduated from Hillside High School and received his A.B. Degree from North Carolina College (N.C. Central University) in Durham. While in college he was acting pastor of the Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Durham and also studied at Shaw University School of Divinity in Raleigh. He served at First Baptist Church in Reidsville and became pastor of the Mount Vernon Baptist Church in High Point in 1942.
      He was a charter member and the first black secretary of the High Point Integrated Ministerial Alliance. He was a member of the Mayor’s Committee, High Point Memorial Hospital Improvement Board, the NAACP and the Rowan Baptist Association, a charter member of the Ordination Counciling of Rowan Baptist Association, member of the General Baptist Convention of North Carolina and the National Baptist Convention.
      Surviving are wife, Mrs. Marian Holmes Bass; sons, Fredrick Odell Bass Jr. of Interdenominational Theology Center in Atlanta, Georgia, Thomas Adrian Bass of Moorehouse College in Atlanta.
      The body is at Hoover Funeral Home.
    Person ID I11  Bass41 Veston Bass of North Carolina
    Last Modified 3 May 2019 

    Father Clovis Bass,   b. From Jun 1852 to 1854, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Gracie Dunnegan,   b. Abt 1875, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 1 Jun 1912  Durham, Durham County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F9  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Marian Holmes 
    Married 10 Nov 1947  Wayne, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Frederick Odell Bass, Jr.
     2. Thomas Adrian Bass,   b. 18 Dec 1957,   d. 19 Mar 2022  (Age 64 years)
    Last Modified 8 May 2019 
    Family ID F8  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart