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- The Clarke County Tribune, Quitman, Mississippi
Friday, 21 November 1958
Pachuta News (By Edith Moody)
John W. Bass Passes
Pachuta mourned the passing of one of her oldest community builders, John William Bass, 80, Justice of the Peace of Clarke County, who expired in Watkins Memorial Hospital at 2:10 p.m. Monday. He was a charter member and honorary steward of the Methodist Church.
Rev. J.K. Pierce, pastor of the Pachuta Baptist Church read passages from the Book of Psalms, and offered prayer.
In his tribute to his church member and friend, the Rev. Elton Brown, pastor, stated that knowing it was a great strain physically for Mr. Bass to be present for Sunday worship, he was always an inspiration. In his eagerness to be at church on Sunday, though he couldn?t walk and was hard of hearing, some of his friends would place him in the car and off to church then take him in their arms and place him in his special chair at the frong pew.
Even as the large number attending the service was a tribute, the flowers spoke of the love for one who now walks ?Among the living flowers in the Garden of God.?
Favorite selections were played by Mrs. Lavelle Lightsey, organist at the church. Burial followed in the Pachuta cemetery.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Ruth Bass and eight children, Mrs. D.V. Norton, Mrs. Crary Green, Mrs. Jack Brewer, Mobile; John W. and Julian, Port Arthur Texas; Kelly and Miss Clara, Pachuta; and eight grandchildren. Mrs. Bertha Adkins, Casablanca, North Africa; Mendel Washburn, Lamberth; Jack, Bill and Larry Brewer, Mobile; Judy, Susan and Steve of Pachuta.
Pallbearers were Percy Davis, Havis Sartor, Gail Rogers, Charlie Rahaim, Danny Hardee and Ernest Culbreth.
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