| Notes |
- He graduated from Greenfield High School in 1935. He worked 7 years in
a brokerage office and then went to work at the Franklin County Trust Co. in
1942 as a messenger boy. He enlisted in the Navy in 1943 and came out of Boot
Camp as a Storekeeper Third Class Petty Officer. He served in England with the
First U.S. Navy Air Expeditionary Force. He went back to the States and
shipped out on the Blue Jacket, a refrigerated cargo ship, in the Pacif
carrying supplies to the fleet.
He was active in Boy Scouts and served as a cub master and scoutmaster
and was awarded the Scoutmaster's Key and Silver Beaver award. He was also
active in town affairs and served 6 years as Selectman in Erving, Massachusetts
and more than 10 years as Moderator.
He went to work at Greenfield Co-operative Bank in 1947 as a teller
and in 1955 became President and CEO. He retired in 1978 and built a home on
Lake Byred in Avon Park, Florida.
The Greenfield Recorder, Thursday, 28 Feb 2008
Ralph L. Bassett
10-26-16 – 2-24-08
AVON PARK, Fla. – Ralph L. Bassett, 91, of Avon Park, former resident of
Erving, Mass., died Sunday (2-24-08) at home. Bassett was president of
Greenfield (Mass.) Co-operative Bank for more than 10 years., direct
Greenfield Co-operative Bank for 20 years. He had a banking career that
spanned over 40 years. He joined Greenfield Co-operative Bank in 1948 a
retired in 1979. He was elected treasurer and member of the Board of Directors
in 1959 and became president in 1968. He was a graduate of Greenfield high
School, New York Stock Exchange Institute of Investments and LaSalle
University, Philadelphia.
A member of the Boy Scouts of America, he started Troop 69 in Deerfield,
Mass., and had served as scoutmaster, cub master, executive council member and
district commissioner. In 1960, he was awarded the Silver Beaver award for his
many years of outstanding service.
He served in the Navy during World War II with the First Naval Air
Expeditionary Force in Europe and with the Fifth Fleet in the Pacific Theatre
on the USS Bluejacket.
He lived in Erving for many years, serving as trustee of the Millers Falls
Scout building, 25 years as a police officer, two of those years as chief. He
was a selectman for six years, moderator for five years and served on t
Finance Committee for three years.
He founded and became the first president of the Franklin County Police
Association. He was county treasurer of the American Heart Association and
served as treasurer and deacon of the Millers Falls Congregational Church and
treasurer of the Greenfield Health Camp.
He was a member of the Republican Lodge of Masons and a 32nd degree Mason. He
married the former Marjorie Coull on Sept. 14, 1940. She predeceased him in
July 1977. He is survived by a daughter, Virginia Hodge and her husband Barry
of Monroe, Maine; two sons, Bruce Bassett and his wife Patricia of Palm Beach,
Fla., and Douglas Bassett and his wife Deborah of Erving; seven grandchildren
and seven great-grandchildren.
Graveside services will be held in the spring. In lieu of flowers, memorial
donations are suggested to the Humane Society of Highlands County, 7321
Haywood Taylor Boulevard, Sebring, FL 33876. Fountain Funeral Home Inc. is in
charge of arrangements.
|
Bassett Family Association Database
1916 - 2008 (91 years)