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- GreenwichTime, September 28, 2011
Elsie Bassett
ELSIE M. BASSETT died peacefully in her sleep at the Skilled Nursing Facility, Spring Lake Village, Santa Rosa, CA on July 19, 2011. After living the first 80 years of her life in the Port Chester, NY and Greenwich, CT areas, she moved to California to enjoy her 'retirement'. Mrs. Bassett was born in Port Chester, NY to the late Otto and Lillian Mikkelsen. Upon graduation from Port Chester HS, she attended and graduated from Catherine Gibb's Secretarial School in New York Ciy and held corporate and legal secretarial positions in NYC. After a war separated courtship, she married the love of her life, George W. Bassett, on April 27, 1946. The newlyweds moved to Byram, CT, enjoying 48 years of marriage until George's passing in 1995. While raising three sons, Elsie held a variety of secretarial and bookkeeping positions outside the home. She was proudest of her time as Parish Secretary at the former St. John's Chapel. Mrs. Bassett was preceded in death by her parents, her husband George, and one son, Thomas Edward Bassett. She is survived by two sons, George Mikkel Bassett and his wife Marlyse, of Dallas, TX and Frederick William Bassett and his wife Catherine Conner of Sebastopol, CA, four granddaughters, four great grandsons and three great granddaughters. The funeral service will be held at 3:00 p.m., Friday, October 7, 2011 in the chapel at Christ Church, 254 E. Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut. Internment is private. Memorial contributions may be made in Mrs. Bassett's name to the Episcopal Senior Communities Foundation, 2185 N. California Blvd, Suite 575, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, or to a charity of your choosing.
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Bassett Family Association Database
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