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- Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas, Thursday, November 26, 1970
Harris H. Bass (Picture included)
Rites Today For Banker, Harris Bass
Rosary for Harris H. Bass, First National Bank senior vice president who died Wednesday in a Dallas hospital, will be recited at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Drawing Room of Harveson & Cole.
Requiem Mass will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Holy Family Church, with graveside services at 4 p.m. Friday in Mt. Calvary Cemetery at Austin.
Bass, 46, of 5914 El Campo, had been in banking since high school.
He was a runner for Austin?s Capital National Bank while a high school student. As a student at the University of Texas, where he lettered in basketball, he was a summer employe with the Federal Reserve Bank in Houston.
The Austin native served five years as assistant vice president and cashier of McAllen State Bank before moving to Fort Worth. He formerly had served with the First National Basnk of Athens.
He was assistant cashier in First State Bank and Trust of Edinburg and the Citizens State Bank of Donna.
Bass, who was executive vice president of the Bank of Commerce from 1957 until 1961, was named vice president of First National in 1961, and senior vice president in 1964. He became director of the bank in January.
He was a member of the board of trustees of the Tarrant County United Fund, the board of directors of the Tarrant County Heart Association and had served as the organization?s president. He was campaign chairman in 1959.
He was past president of the Fort Worth Public Library board, the Fort Worth Chapter of Radio, Free Europe and the Fort Worth Longhorn Club.
Bass served as treasurer of the Fort Worth Symphonic Orchestra Asssociation, Downtown Fort Worth Association, Future Fort Worth Committee and the Tarrant County All Sports Association.
He also was a member of the board of directors of St. Joseph Hospital, Texas State Welfare Association, Fort Worth Day Nursery Association and Better Business Bureau of Fort Worth.
He was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church.
Surviving are his wife; two sons, Harris Bass Jr. and John Croley Bass; and two daughters, Mary Edythe Bass and Martha Elizabeth Bass, all of Fort Worth.
The family requests that expressions of sympathy be in the form of donations to a favorite charity.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1924 - 1970 (46 years)