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- The Dallas Morning News, Texas
April 24, 1995
Patricia Lubben Bassett, Community Volunteer, Dies
Patricia Lubben Bassett, a Dallas native and civic leader in Roswell, New Mexico, died Saturday of respiratory failure after a severe asthmatic attack on April 14.
Mrs. Bassett, 55, who was widely recognized for her civic efforts, was the wife of John W. Bassett Jr., a member of the board of directors of A.H. Belo Corp., parent company of The Dallas Morning News. Her father, Joseph A. Lubben, and grandfather, John F. Lubben, worked a total of 101 years for Belo; her parents were employees at The News when they met. Her father, a former executive vice president and general manager of the newspaper, died last June. Her grandfather worked in every department of the Galveston Daily News, which was then owned by Belo, and was a boyhood friend of The News founder George Bannerman Dealey. John Lubben eventually became secretary-treasurer of Belo's Dallas operation. "Both my parents were extremely community-project oriented," she once told the Roswell Daily Record. "It was part of my family philosphy to be concerned for others."
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