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- Kentucky New Era, December 15, 1950
Rites Saturday
For Henry Bass President of Lumber Company Since 1937
Funeral Services will be held at the grave in Riverside Cemetery at 11 o?clock Saturday morning for Henry L. Bass, prominent 56-year-old Hopkinsville businessman under whose presidency Bass & Company had staged phenomenal growth.
Mr. Bass died yesterday afternoon at Jennie Stuart Hospital where he was taken on December 4 after virus pneumonia developed following a severe cold.
Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Louisa Bass; a son, Henry L. Bass, Jr. of Sewanee, Tenn.; three daughters by a former marriage, Mrs. Winstead Broadfoot of Houston, Tex., Mrs. Duane Snider of Hopkinsville, and Mrs. Burke G. Piper of Arlington, Va.; and six grandchildren, Thomas W. Broadfoot, Bonnie Broadfoot, Malcolm Covington Broadfoot, William and Rebecca Snider; and Susan Louisa Piper.
Pall bearers will be J.L. Connor, Browning Roberts, James G. Givens, W. T. Stowe, Woodrow Hunter and Joel Embry. The body will be at Keightley Funeral Home until time for the services tomorrow.
Mr. Bass was with the old Mogul Wagon Company for five years before World War I. He enlisted in the Army and rose from the rank of private to first lieutenant before being discharged.
After the war, he was with Forbes Manufacturing Company for three years as a purchasing agent, but in 1925 he helped his brother, the late Oscar Bass, organize Bass and Company. He resigned from the company to be associated in business in Memphis for more than two years, but returned to Bass & Company shortly before his brother?s death.
Henry Bass became the head of Bass & Company; in 1937 and served in that capacity until his death. The company originally dealt in retail lumber and building material and in wholesale plumbing, and between 1925 and 1937 it had established branches at Bowling Green, Cadiz, Elkton and Clarksville.
Under Henry Bass, the business became all wholesale lumber at Clarksville while the small ones at Cadiz and Elkton were closed. Branches were established in Owensboro, Paducah and Nashville as the company?s business grew tremendously.
1900 Federal Census of Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky (June 22, 1900)
Oscar L. Bass - 42 - Male - Nov 1857 - SC-SC-SC - Head - Merchant
Cornelia E. - 36 - Female - Jun 1864 - NC-NC-NC - Wife
Dixie - 14 - Female - Jan 1886 - NC-SC-NC - Daughter - In School
Cornelia C. - 12 - Female - May 1888 - SC-SC-NC - Daughter - In School
Oscar L. - 9 - Male - Feb 1891 - GA-SC-NC - Son - In School
Henry L. - 5 - Male - July 1894 - GA-SC-NC - Son
Jessie V. - 10/12 - Female - Aug 1899 - KY-SC-NC - Daughter
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Bassett Family Association Database
1894 - 1950 (56 years)