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- Denver Post, Colorado, Friday, November 29, 1935
Mother Of Former Attorney General In Colorado Is Dead
Longmont, Colo., Nov. 29 ? Mrs. Emma Elizabeth Bassett Keyes died at her home here Tuesday as a result of a breakdown brought on when she fell and broke her hip last July. Funeral services will be held here Saturday morning.
Mrs. Keyes was born in Mount Vision, N.J., Jan. 1, 1848. She came to Longmont recently with her daughter, Margaret Joy Keyes, who was formerly connected with the department of dramatic art and physical education at the Colorado State college at Greeley.
Mrs. Keyes was the daughter of Dr. Wilbur Thomas Bassett of Cooperstown, N.Y., and was them mother of nine children, four of whom died in infancy.
One of her sons, Victor E. Keyes, was attorney general of the state from 1918 to 1922. He died in 1927.
Mrs. Keyes is survived by one son, Dr. Thomas Bassett Keyes of Chicago, her daughter and ten grandchildren.
Otsego Farmer, Cooperstown, New York, Friday, 13 Dec 1935
Mrs. Emma Elizabeth Bassett Keys
Mrs. Emma Elizabeth Bassett Keyes, daughter of the late Dr. Wilson T.
Bassett and Dr. Mary Augusta Bassett, of this village, died at the a
eighty-seven years at Longmont, Colorado, on Tuesday, November 26th, at 8:52
p.m.
Mrs. Keyes was born in Mount Vision on January 1, 1848. Since last
February she had been in failing health in California and early last July,
while in Longmont, fell and fractured her hip.
Mrs. Keyes went to Longmont from California late last June. She was
accompanied by her daughter, Miss Margaret Joy Keyes, who was formerly for
many years associate professor in the departments of Dramatic Art and Physical
Education in the Colorado State College of Education in Greele
Mrs. Keyes spent more than three years at the Bassett residence at No.
34 Fair street, Cooperstown, following the death of her sister, Dr. Mary
Imogene Bassett, in whose honor the present Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital and
Pathological Laboratory was built by the late Mr. Edward Severin Clar
Mrs. Keyes was the wife of Melville Keyes, who was engaged in t
practice of law in Oneonta, until his death which occurred in January, 1907.
Nine children were born in Oneonta, four of who died in infancy. One so
Victor Ernest Keyes, practiced law for many years in Greeley, Colorado, and
was Attorney General of Colorado from 1919 to 1923. His death occurred June
14, 1927.
Another son, Carlyle Marlette Keyes who will be remember by the
residents here having spent several years of his childhood and early manhood
with his aunt and grandfather, was a member of a prominent law firm in
Chicago. He passed away on March 8, 1931. Another son, Marion Winfield Keyes,
was buried in Mount Vision in January, 1926.
Mrs. Keyes is survived by one son, Dr. Thomas Bassett Keyes, of
Chicago and one daughter, Margaret Joy Keyes of Longmont, Colorado, and ten
grandchildren, Mrs. Theodosia Bassett Whiting of Los Angeles, Calif.; Charles
M. Keyes, and officer of the U.S. Navy, San Diego, Calif.; Ernest Victor
Keyes, a law student at Harvard University; Elizabeth Jane Keyes, who is
attending Stephens College at Columbia, Missouri; Mary Bassett and Marjorie
Keyes of Massachusetts; Crawford, Barbara Bassett, Mary Margaret and Jo
Katherine Keyes of Longmont. Three great grand children also survive: Margaret
Joy and Thomas Bassett Whiting of Chicago and Robert Whiting of Dixon,
Illinois. Nieces and nephews surviving are Mrs. Harry Goldsmith, Miss E
Keyes, DeForest Keyes and Henry Shove all of Oneonta and Franklin Keyes of
Laurens.
Funeral services for Mrs. Keyes were held at St. Stephens Episcopal
church, Longmont, Colorado, Saturday morning November 30th at 10 oâ??clock. The
Rev. Elliott W. Boone officiated at the service. Interment was held at Linn
Grove cemetery, Greeley, at 12:30 p.m.
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