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The Roanoke Times, Virginia, Saturday, 13 February 1937
Hurt In Flood Rescue Work, Virginian Dies
SOUTH BOSTON, Feb. 12 (Special) ? Funeral services for Henry Carl Bass, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clifton Bass of South Boston were held here yesterday. Mr. Bass, who was a resident of Louisville, Ky., suffered a fractured skull while engaged in flood rescue work in Louisville and died Sunday afternoon. He had been employed in Louisville by the Belknap Manufacturing company.
He was educated at Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro where he was outstanding in athletics.
News and Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Wednesday, February 10, 1937
Raleigh Man?s Brother One of Flood Victims
Henry Bass, Killed in Louisville, Was Brother of Lowell Bass
Richmond, Feb. 9. ? Henry Carl Bass, 37, of South Boston, Va., died in Louisville, Ky., Sunday night of injuries received in an explosion while doing rescue and relief work for flood victims. His body was being brought back tonight to Virginia by his brother, Lowell Bass, of Raleigh, N.C., who was summoned to Louisville by news of the mishap.
Funeral services will be conducted at South Boston Thursday morning. He left South Boston last summer to accept a position with a hardward company in Louisville.
In addition to two sisters, Herman T. Bass of Asheboro, N.C., formerly editor of the Halifax Gazette of South Boston, survives.
The Courier, Asheboro, North Carolina, Tuesday, 9 February 1937
Brother Of Local man Dies Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bass were called to South Boston, Va., Sunday night by the death of Mr. Bass? brother, Carl Bass, who died in Louisville, Kentucky, where he was employed by a hardware firm. The body will be brought to Richmond for burial. Details of the funeral have not been arranged. Lowell Bass, another brothers, has gone to Louisville to bring back the body.
Carl Bass suffered a fractured skull in an accident Saturday, but was believed to be recovering until spinal meningitis set in, and he succumbed Sunday morning. He had been on duty aiding in flood relief for ten days and nights, his place of business having been turned into a relief center, and for a large part of the time he had been working in water up to his knees, and that it is believed that a lower resistance due to these causes was largely responsible for his death.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1899 - 1937 (38 years)
d. 24 Nov 1950, South Boston, Halifax County, Virginia