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- He grew up in Bordulac, North Dakota.
Clifford Ernest Bassett, son of Henry George and Mary Joseph (Connely) Bassett, was born about Oct 1918 in North Dakota. He married Helen Brown on 9 Jan 1945 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
(Source: Daughter, Sandra Siegel) Clifford grew up in Bordulac, North Dakota. He worked with the CCC's in Minnesota during the late 1930's and early 1940's. He went into the Army during the early part of the war and was sent overseas with Patten's army in 1944. He was a cartographer and was in some of the forward divisions which drew maps of the changed terrain which by that time in the war had no road signs or any identification of roads or villages. The German army was mostly in reatreat in front of these foward companies which they chased across Europe and into Germany. When he returned to the states, he married Helen Brown, a lifelong resident of Mississippi where Dad was stationed at Camp Shelby, just outside of Jackson. They married in New Orleans, LA on January 9, 1945.
Dad applied to colleges all over the country to make use of the GI Bill and chose the first which accepted him, Western Kentucky College which in in Bowling Green, KY, where I was born on August 16, 1946. He received a degree in accounting and took the CPA exam which he passed. He moved his family to Louisville, KY where he worked at a candy company in the accounting department. He moved again to Shelbyville, KY where he and my mother ran their own accoutning company. He was hired to the the comptroller for Ralph Rogers Construction Company, based in Bloomington, IN with offices and holdings in seven states. This company was engaged in the business of building roads. Dad wrote all of the computer accounting programs and organizational programs when computers were still pretty futuristic. He traveled to company holdings every week; asphalt palnts, rock quarries, road jobs and retired from their Nashville, TN office in 1985. My parents now reside in a retirement community in Indianapolis (Jan 2005).
The Indianpolis Star, Indiana, 6 Jan 2006
Clifford Ernest Bassett
Clifford Ernest Bassett, died on Wednesday January 4, 2006. He was born in Carrington, North Dakota to Henry and Mary Bassett, on October 13, 1918. He graduated from Bordulac High School, ND, in 1936. He served in the European theater with the 3 Army 65 division G2 headquarters, serving as a Master Sargeant as a cartographer. In 1947, he graduated from Bowling Green College of Commerce, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, with an accounting degree. He was Senior-Vice-President Comptroller with Rogers Group, from which he retired in Nashville, TN. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Helen Brown Bassett; his three children, Sandra (Albert) Siegel, Cliff (Joyce) Bassett and Pamela (Gary) Neumann; eight grandchildren, Aaron Siegel, Rachel Siegel Berger, Tiffany, Jonathan and Kristen Bassett, Lauren and Logan Neumann and Leah Neumann Vergara; five great grandchildren, Donna Marie and Emma Siegel and Olivia, Malynn and Lillian Berger. Services will be held at 3:00 p.m. Sunday January 8 at Flanner and Buchanan Funeral Center-Broad Ripple. Friends may call from 4-8 pm Saturday January 7. A graveside service will be at 10 am Monday January 9 at Crown Hill Cemetery. Memorial contributions can be made to American Heart Association or Marquette Manor Foundation.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1918 - 2006 (87 years)