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- Evening Star, Washington D.C., Thursday, November 2, 1967
(Includes a picture of Rear Adm. Ivan E. Bass)
Retired Navy Rear Adm. Ivan E. Bass, 90, a Navy engineer for more than 50 years and a founding member of the Army-Navy Country Club, died yesterday of a heart attack at his home, 3601 Connecticut Ave. NW.
He had lived in Washington since his retirement in 1947 and worked on family genealogy, publishing two volumes.
Adm. Bass was the senior member of the Bureau of Ships? Settlement review and property disposal board from 1944 to 1947.
In his long career as a naval engineer,, he had been head of the machinery division of the New York and Boston Navy Yards, served as engineer officer on four battleships and served as fleet engineer of the Asiatic Fleet under Amd. Montgomery Taylor.
He held the Boston Navy Yard post during the years of World War I, after which he came to Washington to join the Navy?s board of inspection and survey. He then stayed here, except for his three years with the Asiatic fleet, from 1931 to 1934, and five years as the Navy?s inspector of machinery at the Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.
Born near Carley, Miss., Adm. Bass graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1901.
Besides being a founding member of the Army-Navy Country Club, he was a member of the Mississippi Historical Society, the Devon and Cornwall Records Society, the Mississippi and National Genealogical Societies and the New York Yacht Club.
Adm. Bass leaves his wife, Florence; two brothers, Dr. Charles C. of New Orleans, and Houston of Lumberton, Miss., and two sisters, Dr. Cora B. Pigford and Mrs. Wreathe B. Hoey, both of Lumberton.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Arlington Cemetery.
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1877 - 1967 (90 years)