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- The Washington Post, District of Columbia, 18 Mar 19
Barbara N. Bassett - Translator
Barbara N. Bassett, 70, a former translator and researcher, died of
lung cancer March 15 at the Hospice of Northern Virginia. A resident of
Alexandria, she had lived in the Washington area off and on since the 1950s.
Mrs. Bassett was a translator for the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1950s
and a researcher for Avco Corp. in the 1960s. She was born in Chattanooga,
Tenn., and attended Columbia University. Mrs. Bassett accompanied her first
husband, Donald F.B. Jameson, to CIA posts in Germany and Spain during the
1950s. Her first marriage ended in divorce. Mrs. Bassett was a reader for the
blind under the auspices of the Reading Society for the Visually Handicapped.
Survivors include her husband, Ormon Bassett of Alexandria; a son of her first
marriage, Jeremy Jameson of Houston; three stepdaughters, Susan Bassett of
Baltimore, Deborah Bassett of Wallingford, Conn., and Elizabeth Cart
Boston; a sister, Phoebe Nixon of Santa Barbara, Calif., and five
grandchildren.
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1923 - 1994 (70 years)