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- Participated in Bass DNA Project as DNA Kit No. 86336.
Find-a-Grave Obituary
Thomas Van Nathan Bass
Thomas Van Nathan Bass, 85, of Asheville died Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at Memorial Mission Hospital. A native of Louisburg, NC, he was son of the late William Roy and Mary Beaty Bass. He was also preceded in death by his first wife, Metta Mae Spence Bass, his brother, Wm. Roy Bass and his sister, Mary Louise Bass Wood.
Mr. Bass graduated from NC State and received an MBA from the University of Wisconsin. He was a member of the Kiwanis Club for 30 years, was former president of Council on Aging and former board member of ABCCM. Tom enjoyed a lifetime of community service and volunteerism.
He is survived by his wife, Joan McNairy Bass; son, Thomas Van Nathan Bass, Jr. and his wife, Debbie; grandson, Avery Walton Bass and stepsons, Dalton Coey Cox and Matthew McNairy Cox. Also surviving are his brothers, Clarence Beaty Bass, Charles Gilbert Bass and his wife, Shirley and James Haywood Bass and his wife, Diane and his sisters, Virginia Bass Bradsher and her husband, Ed and Francis Ann Bass Hite and her husband, Steve.
A memorial service will be held 1:00 PM, Saturday, April 27, 2013 at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 789 Merrimon Avenue with Reverend Mark Ramsey officiating.
Greensboro Daily News
North Carolina
Sunday, August 24, 1952
Miss Spence Bride Of Mr. Bass In Manchester Rites
Fayetteville, August 23 - Miss Metta May Spence, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Oscar Spence of Overhills, became the bride of Thomas Van Nathan Bass, son of Dr. and Mrs. William Roy Bass of Louisburg, this morning at 11 oâ??clock, in Manchester Presbyterian Church of the Covenant. Reverend Arthur D. Carswell, pastor, used the double ring ceremony. Music was presented by Stanley R. Waterfield, organist, and Miss Sara Ann Blalock, soloist.
Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a gown of embroidered Swiss organdy featuring a fitted bodice designed with Peter Pan collar and bracelet length sleeves, and full, five-tiered skirt extending into a chapel-length train. Her fingertip veil was draped from a Juliet cap of net and velvet with small clusters of lilies of the valley on either side. She carried a cascade arrangement of calla lilies.
Miss Dorothy Jean Bruce of Overhills, maid of honor, wore a dress of baby blue dotted swiss over white taffeta. She carried a garden basket filled with white daisies.
Bridesmaids were Misses Virginia Bass of Louisburg, sister of the bridegroom, Nancy Kistler of Charlotte and Betsy Cannady of Richlands, and Mrs. Holloway Thomas of Sanford. Their dresses and accessories were identical to those of the maid of honor. They carried garden baskets filled with pastel daisies.
Charles Bass of Louisburg was his brotherâ??s best man. Ushers were Cadet William Spence, United States Coast Guard Academy, brother of the bride; Dewey Evans of Raleigh, Edgar Lee Perry and J. Marion Grainger, Jr., of Louisburg.
Mrs. Bass is a graduate of Campbell College and Meredith College. Mr. Bass is a 1951 graduate of State College, Raleigh.
For traveling, the bride wore a wheat colored silk faille suit trimmed with brown velvet and all brown velvet accessories. She wore a corsage of baby calla lilies.
After September 1, the couple will be at home in Laurinburg, where Mrs. Bass will be on the faculty of the Laurinburg city schools. Mr. Bass is office manager of the McNair Yield-Tested Seed company in Laurinburg.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1927 - 2013 (85 years)