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- The Commercial Appeal
Mempthis, Tennessee
Monday, June 30, 2014
Margaret Bass Stewart
Humboldt - Margaret Bass Stewart, 89, passed away at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee on Saturday, June 28, 2014. Services for Mrs. Stewart will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, July 1 in the Shelton-Hunt Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Reverend Dan Weaver will officiate. Pallbearers will be Dan Bass, Paul Bass, David Dougan, Bill Luckey, Pat Luckey and Dwaine Phillips. Visitation will take place from 9-11 a.m., prior to the service. She was preceded in death by her husband Charles Stewart, Jr. Mrs. Stewart, daughter of the late Edith Adcock Bass and Joe Billy Bass, Sr. was born in Humboldt, Tennessee on June 17, 1925. Throughout her career, Mrs. Stewart worked in medical records for independent doctors in Humboldt, Tennessee and Fort Worth, Texas. Her longest stint was spent on staff at All Saints Hospital in Fort Worth as assistant to the personnel director. Mrs. Stewart was an active member of the Central Avenue Christian Church where she played the church organ for many years. Additionally, she was active in the Christian Women's Fellowship of the church, participating in both local and regional events. At the time of her death, she was serving on the Christian Action Outreach Committee. She was instrumental in creating a weekly worship service at the West Tennessee Veteran's Home, where she served as the music chair and played the piano for each service. Mrs. Stewart is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Edith Stewart McLeary and husband Harold Woodard McLeary, Jr. of Germantown, Tennessee; a brother, Mr. Joe Billy Bass, Jr. and his wife Evelyn of Old Hickory, Tennessee; granddaughter, Mrs. Brooke McLeary Jones and husband Beverly Jones III of Franklin, Tennessee and a great-granddaughter, Margaret Frances Jones. Mrs. Stewart also had four nieces and nephews whom she loved very much, the late Mr. Joe Bret Bass; Dianne Bass Spain of Old Hickory, Tennessee, Daniel Alan Bass (Sherry) of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma; and Paul David Bass (Nancy) of Seymour, Tennessee. The family requests memorials be made to the Central Avenue Christian Church in Humboldt, Tennessee.
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