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Eula Mae Bass

Female 1907 - 2003  (95 years)


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  • Name Eula Mae Bass 
    Born 10 May 1907  Morgan Mill, Erath County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 3 May 2003  Carlsbad, San Diego County, California Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego, San Diego County, California Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Portales News-Tribune, New Mexico, May 10, 2003
      Eula Mae Marley

      Eula Mae Marley, 95, formerly of Portales, a retired schoolteacher, died Saturday, May 3, 2003, in Carlsbad, CA.

      She was born on May 10, 1907, in Morgan Mill, Texas, to Frank and Daisy Bass. her family moved to the New Mexico Territory by covered wagon and homesteaded north of Tatum in 1911. After graduating from Tatum High School in 1925, she began her 30 years of teaching in a one-room school in Pitchfork. In 1928, she married David Marley, a classmate since the eighth grade. She moved to Portales in 1944 and taught elementary grades for 32 years in Dora, retiring in 1969. After celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary in 1978, the Marleys followed their four children to California.

      She was preceded in death by her daughter, Florence Dean Chansler, in 2000.

      Survivors include her husband, David, of Carlsbad, Calif.; three sons, Dr. Albert D. "Buddy" Marley of Agoura Hills, Calif., Donovan Marley of Denver and Dr. Gerald Marley of Santa Ana, Calif.; one sister, Yuneva Kirk; and eight grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

      Services were held Saturday in San Diego. Arrangements by Featheringill Mortuary of San Diego.
    Person ID I42536  1A William Bassett of Plymouth
    Last Modified 12 Apr 2023 

    Father Frank Dovin Bass,   b. 4 Feb 1878, Morgan Mill, Erath County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Nov 1962, Lovington, Lea County, New Mexico Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Mother Daisy Dean Laughlin,   b. 1884, Morgan Mill, Erath County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1962, Lovington, Lea County, New Mexico Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Family ID F18690  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family David Warnick Marley,   b. 1908,   d. 2003  (Age 95 years) 
    Children 
     1. Florence Dean Marley,   b. 1929,   d. 2000  (Age 71 years)
     2. Albert D. Marley,   b. 1932,   d. 2019  (Age 87 years)
    Last Modified 27 Nov 2021 
    Family ID F18692  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart