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- Tampa Bay Times, March 30, 2012
Patrick F. Bassett (Includes picture)
BASSETT, Patrick F. Sr. Born Dec, 20, 1920, he died at the age of 91 on March 27, 2012, among his friends in the Allegro community in St. Petersburg. His survivors include his only child, Patrick F. Bassett, Jr. and daughter-in-law, Barbara A. Bassett, Alexandria, VA; granddaughter, Brooke Bassett, Longmont, CO; granddaughter Alison Maher; and two great-grandchildren, Avery Maher and Carter Maher, Boulder, CO. Born of Italian parents who immigrated through Ellis Island as children in the early 1900s, he grew up in Rochester, NY, served in the Army <http://www.legacy.com/memorial-sites/army/?personid=156768315&affiliateID=2081> as a band member in Paris in WWII <http://www.legacy.com/memorial-sites/ww2/?personid=156768315&affiliateID=2081>, and returned after the war to work at Eastman Kodak and to marry his high school sweetheart, Ann Grace Clark. At the same time he assembled and led his own full orchestra during the Swing Band Era ("Swing and Sweat with Pat Bassett"). Eventually he started his own haberdashery business that was successful enough to allow him to retire at age 49. After the death from natural causes of his first wife Ann and his second wife Savilla, he enjoyed three decades of marriage to his third wife, Emily, until her death in 2010.
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records
Patrick F. Bassett
Born: 1920
Race: White, citizen
Nativity: New York
County: Monroe
Elistment Date: 12 Nov 1943 in Rochester, New York
Grade: Private
Term: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six
months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according
to law.
Education: 4 years of high school
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
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Bassett Family Association Database
1920 - 2012 (91 years)