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- The State, Columbia, South Carolina, Friday, October 27, 2000
Dellar Ardealia Bass
COLUMBIA - Services for Dellar Ardealia Ellis (Grannie) Bass, 103, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 28, 2000, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 4400 Jackson Blvd. Bishop Robert C. Woodrow will officiate. Interment will follow in Greenlawn Memorial Park. Pallbearers will be Brian K. Bass, Sean Kirby, Jesse Sturgess, Adam Bass, Kevin Bass and Brad Cooper. Visitation will be 6-8 this evening at Greenlawn Funeral Home on Leesburg Rd. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Missionary Program and set to Bishop Robert C. Woodrow, 139 King Charles Road, Columbia, SC 29209. The family will also receive friends at her home, 6 Cardross Lane, St. Marks Wood. The body will lie in state at the church for an hour prior to the services.
Mrs. Bass, widow of Jerry R. Bass, died Thursday, October 26, 2000, at Magnolia Manor Nursing Home. Born in Wilson Co., N.C., April 7, 1897, she was the daughter of Nuet Exum Ellis and Martha Louise Long Bass. In her earlier years, Grannie was very active in church through Relief Society service, teaching Sunday School, and working to earn money for a church meeting house in Rocky Mount, N.C. She also enjoyed serving meals to the missionaries over the years. Grannie moved to Columbia to live with her eldest son, Edward, and wife Mildred after the loss of her husband. To know her was to love her.
Surviving are her children, Edward R. Bass of Columbia, Marvelin I. Bass of Laurens, Thomas E. Bass of Vernal, Utah, Ray C. Bass of Lutz, Fla., Peggy Joyce Young of Hopkins; over 200 surviving grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Survivors are spread through five generations. She was predeceased by two children, Margaret Louise Bass and Lee Roy Bass.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1897 - 2000 (102 years)