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- Arab Heritage Memorial Chapel ? Funeral Home
Mary Ann Bass
October 16, 1932 ? April 13, 2025
Ms. Mary Ann Bass, age 92, passed away Sunday, April 13, 2025, in Appling, Georgia. Mary Ann grew up in Blount County, Alabama but was a resident of Arab for over fifty-seven years. Her parents were Erna J. Bailey and Mary Elizabeth Herring Bailey. She married Alva Wilson Bass on January 19th 1957 at Hunter Street Baptist Church. Mary Ann attended both the Arab First Baptist Church and Lebanon United Methodist Church in Oneonta. She had previously worked as a teller at New York Life in Birmingham.
Mary Ann was a self-taught artist and successful investor, but dedicated most of her life to her family as a loving wife and mother, always ready to take her girls to tennis matches, cheerleading practice, ballet and piano lessons and recitals.
Family members left behind to cherish their memories of Mary Ann include: daughters, Melanie Bass Pollard (Jake), Melissa Adele Bass and Carrie Lee Bass; grandchildren, Brent Justin Griffin (Cassandra) and Natalie Saint-Martin; and sisters in law, Jane Graham Bailey and Faye Bailey.
Mary Ann was preceded in death by her parents, Erna and Mary Bailey; husband, Alva W. Bass; brothers, Andyle Bailey, Jim Bailey and Jay Allen Bailey; sisters, Wadeene Reeves and Betty Killian.
Services for Mary Ann will be graveside at Lebanon United Methodist Church Cemetery (925 County Hwy 42, Oneonta, AL 35121). The service will be Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 3:00pm. with Brother Randy L. Blakely officiating. Family members will be graveside at 2:00 pm to greet friends and guests for a short visitation. Arab Heritage Memorial Chapel entrusted with arrangements. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to Lebanon Cemetery Fund, 901 Spruce Road, Oneonta, AL, 35121, or The Wounded Warrior Project athttps://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/
Birmingham Post-Herald, Alabama, Saturday, 19 January 1957
Bass-Bailey Wedding To Be Here Tonight
The marriage of Mary Ann Bailey of Birmingham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Erna J. Bailey of Oneonta, to Alva Wilson Bass, son of Mrs. Mary F. Bass and William Alva Bass of Slocomb will be at 7 this evening at the chapel of Hunter Street Baptist Church.
The bride?s gown has a bodie of re-embroidered Alencon lace and billowing skirt with chapel train. Her fingertip weil is caught to a halo of orange blossoms and she will carry a white Bible marked with a white orchid and lilies of the valley.
The Rev. Charles C. Bowles will officiate and the Bride?s sister, Mrs. Thomas H. Killian Jr. and Edgar A. Verchot will be honor attendants. Ushers will be Gene Watts and Charles Malcolm, and the bride will be given in marriage by her father.
A floor length dress of pink net will be worn by the matron of honor, her flowers to be Better Times roses.
At the reception another sister of the bride, Mrs. Alfred L. Reeves, will register guests and Mrs. Carl L. Tucker will cut the cake. Assiting in serving will be Mrs. Andyle H. Bailey, Jo Ann Ray, Mrs. Charles Malcolm, Billie West, Nona White and Laverna Aderholt.
The couple will be at hom at 1520 53rd-st. Centrl Parl.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1932 - 2025 (92 years)