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- Jefferson Jimplecute, Sunday, April 11, 1937
Bass Perkins Store Manager for 28 Years
Local Head Serves Company Since 1902; Store Moves Ahead With Times
P. L. Bass, manager of the Perkins Bros. Company of Jefferson, while not a native of the city is one of its leading citizens by virtue of the many years he has served the people of Jefferson and of Marion County.
Mr. Bass was born in Carrollton, Georgia, and moved to Texas in the fall of 1894 as boy of fifteen to take a job with Perkins Bros. in Alverado, Texas where he stayed until 1902.
In 1902, young Paul Bass was transferred from the store in Alverado to another owned by the Perkins brothers in Athens, Texas, and he was there until 1909. when he came to Jefferson which was to be his home for twenty-eight years with only a two year break between 1913 and 1916. In 1909, when Mr. Bass came to Jefferson, the Perkins Bros. store was located on Vale street in front of the Journal then the Daily Jimplecute where it remained for two years.
1911 saw the store, and Mr. Bass moved to the space now occupied by the Leader and Hope Hughes on Lafayette street.
From 1913 until the present the store has been on the north east corner of Polk and Lafayette streets.
Mr. and Mrs., Bass have five children and five grandchildren. His sons are; James Thomas, who is with the Longview Daily News; Myron, in the leather business in Cucro, Texas; and Leon who is at present in Jefferson. The daughters are Maud Estelle and Mrs. O. A. R. De Vaux, of Dallas.
Two of Mr. Bass' grandchildren live here in Jefferson with him. They are the twin boys of his son, Leon. The other three grandchildren are the two girls of Leon Bass and the son of Myron Bass.
P.L. Bass, 45 Year Business Head Here, Dies Tuesday
Funeral services were held from the First Methodist Church at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, October 12, for P. L. Bass, a Jefferson resident and business head here for more than 45 years. Mr. Bass was stricken on Tuesday of last week with a heart attack and had been confined to a clinic here and to his home since that time. Death came at 6:30 PM, Monday, October 10. The funeral was under the direction of the Rev. Robert Greaves. Interment was at Oakwood Cemetery.
Mr. Bass was born December 27, 1875 at Carrollton, Georgia. He came to Texas in 1899, settling at Alvarado. He moved to Jefferson in 1909, where he was manager of Perkins Dry Goods here for a number of years before becoming co-owner of the present Bass Dry Goods. He was married in 1896 to the former Miss Mattie Amy Cotter, who survives him. Six children were born to this union. One of the children, a daughter, Mattie Pearl Bass, died at the age of two years in 1910. The other five children survive him.
He was a member of the First Methodist Church here where he was a member of the Noble Bible Cass and was an honorary member of the Board of Stewards. He was active in all phases of church and civic work. The many friends attending his funeral to pay their last respects was a token of the steem and high regard in which he was held. Stores closed throughout the city at the hour of his funeral. He was also a member of the Jefferson Rotary Club.
Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Mattie Bass; three sons, Leon Bass, who is one of the co-owners of the store here carrying the Bass name. Myron Bass of Cuero, Texas and James T. Bass, publisher of the Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald, Mt. Vernon, Texas; two daughters, Mrs. O. A. P. DeVaux, Leakey, Texas; Mrs. T. H. Hilton of Phoenix, Arizona; one brother, Walter Bass, Jefferson; one sister, Mrs. N. B. Walker, Jefferson. Nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren also survive.
Pallbearers were Luke Walker, Newt McBride, Robert Williams, Elmer Jones, Kirby Beauchamp, Jesse M. DeWare Jr., J. W. Moody, and Ed Taylor. Honorary pallbearers included the men of the Methodist Church, members of the Rotary Club and all of his many personal friends.
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1875 - 1955 (80 years)