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- Dallas Morning News, Texas, Monday, 25 January 1954
Sherman Rites Arranged for Tom C. Bass
Special to The News
SHERMAN, Texas. ? Funeral services are to be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the John C. Dannel chapel for Tom C. Bass, 81, civic leader for years and native of Sherman, who died Saturday night at a Sherman hospital after illness of several weeks.
The Rev. Edward R. Barcus, pastor of the Travis Street Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in West Hill Cemetery.
Bass was born in 1872, son of the late Col. T.C. Bass and Mrs. Bass, in the first two-story house built in Sherman, which was hand-hewn log timber house at 215 West Houston. He was a son of a Confederate army colonel, who died of yellow fever when he responded for help during an epidemic.
Bass began his career as dry goods merchant as a cash boy in the old M. Schneider & Brothers dry goods store here. It was later purchased by the late George Murphy of Sherman, and the firm name was changed to Bass, Parish and Taylor. Tom C. Bass headed the firm as president. During his life he served as president of the Clay Dry Goods Company of Gainesville, and was a stock-holder in the old Murphy Dry Goods store here.
Bass was a member of the Travis Street Methodist Church, of which he was a steward and member of the finance board. He also was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Knights Templar and was a Scottish Rite Shriner.
He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Jessie Curd, and one sister, Miss Nettie Bass, all of Sherman.
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