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- 1910 Federal Census of Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska
Walter J. Bassett 32 M IA IA IA Head Agent Insurance Company
Nellie 30 F IL IL IA Wife
Vernon 5 M NE IA IL Son
Paul 3 M NE IA IL Son
(Living at 1826 K St.)
1930 Federal Census of Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska (4 Apr 1930)
Walter Bassett 53 M IA MO IA Head Agent Insurance
Nellie 53 F IL IL IN Wife
Pearl 25 F ND ND NW DauL Demonstrator ? Company
Berneden? 11 F MN NE ND Grdau
& 1 Boarder
(Living at 1515 South 1st) (Married at 26, 23, Pearl at 25)
(NW – Norway)
1930 Federal Census of Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska (14 Apr 1930)
Arthur O. Olson 50 M NE DN DN Head Attendant Filling Station
Grace 38 F IA IA IA Wife Presser Cleaning Plant
Paul Bassett 23 M NE NE NE SonL Painter Railways
Ruth 20 F NE NE IA Daughter
(Living at 3737 Sumner) (Married at 30 & 14, Paul and Ruth at 20 & 18)
(DN – Denmark)
The Lincoln Star, Lincoln, Nebraska, Monday, September 29, 1930
Lincoln Man is Killed by Monoxide Gas
W.G. Bassett Meets Accidental Death Monday Morning
Fail in Efforts to Resuscitate
Overcome While Working on Automobile in the Family Garage
(Picture of Walter G. Bassett is included in article)
Efforts of six firemen and a doctor to resuscitate Walter G. Bassett, 54, Lincoln insurance man who was found unconscious in the gas-filled garage at his home, 1515 South Fifteenth street, Monday morning, proved unavailing. Mr. Bassett was found by his wife, Mrs. Nellie Bassett, shortly after 8:30 o’clock. Firemen labored at artificial respiration for an hour and a quarter, but life was extinct.
Although death was attributed by Dr. G. H. Marvel to carbon monoxide poisoning, the physician said that Mr. Bassett possibly suffered a heart attack, which rendered him unconscious, while the gas poured from the exhaust of the automobile which he had succeeded in starting after some difficulty.
Found Lying Beside Car.
Mrs. Bassett said her husband left the house at 7:30 o’clock. When she heard the motor running over an hour later, she investigated and found him lying by the side of the car. The doors of the garage were open. Tools were lying on a running board, and one side of the hood had been loosened, indicating that he had been working on the motor.
Dr. marvel administered powerful heart stimulants, and firemen, working in shifts, labored over the patient, while neighbors and Wadlow’s ambulance attendants supplied hot water packs for his body. Assistant Chief Donnelly and his driver, Glen Overton were assisted by Capt. A.A. Barney, John Badburg, Harry Chandler and Cecil Gannon of engine house No. 3 in applying artificial respiration.
Mrs. Bassett Injured.
Mrs. Bassett suffered a severe back injury as she dragged her husband from the garage into the open air. She is at her home under the care of a physician.
Fireman Gannon shut off the motor. The radiator was boiling and the poisonous fumes almost rendered it impossible to enter the garage in spite of the fact that the doors were open, Gannon said.
Mr. Bassett had lived in Lincoln twenty-five years, coming here from Unadilla. He had been in the insurance business the past twenty years, and at the time of his death was connected with the Capital Fire Insurance company of Lincoln as field representative in the North Platte territory.
Besides his wife, he is survived by two sons, Paul and Vernon L. Bassett, of Lincoln; his mother, Mrs. Olive Bassett of Unadilla; two brothers, Ollie and William of Burlington, Colo. and a sister in South Dakota. The body is being held at Wadlow’s pending funeral arrangements.
Walter G. Bassett
Picture
Mr. Bassett, well known Lincoln insurance man, died Monday morning the victim of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning in the garage at his home, 1515 South Fifteenth street. Physicians advanced the possibility that Mr. Bassett inhaled the poisonous fumes from the motor, which he had difficulty in starting, while he lay unconscious from a heart attack.
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1876 - 1930 (54 years)