Thelma M. Bassett

1919 - 2004  (84 years)

• Name	Thelma M. Bassett
  Born	11 Jun 1919	Maine
  Gender	Female
  _UID	B730D0D60E5BCB469EEA05289FFFEB9CE19A
  Died	7 Mar 2004
  Notes	Thelma (Bassett) Cornell Strout Bangor Daily News, September 25, 2008 PORTLAND ? Thelma (Bassett) Cornell Strout, the wife of Warren W. Strout of Portland, passed away on March 7, 2004, after a brief illness. Mrs. Strout was born June 11, 1919, the daughter of Charles E. Bassett and Katherine A. Leahy. Mrs. Strout was a graduate of Westbrook High School, Class of 1937, and Westbrook Junior College, Class of 1939, where she was May Queen. She graduated from Colby College, Class of 1941, where she majored in biology, was a dean?s list student and a member of Chi Omega sorority. Following graduation from Colby, she taught for a year at the Junior High School of York. During World War II, she was a research chemist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working on war related research. Mrs. Strout resided in Orono from 1946 to 1970, and represented it in the Maine House of Representatives during the 103rd and 104th legislatures. She was an early sponsor of clean air and water legislation. She was a member of the Orono Republican Town Committee, the Secretary of the Orono League of Women Voters and a member of the Penobscot County Republican Women?s Club. She was also a director of the Women?s Auxiliary of the Penobscot County Medical Association and the Bangor-Brewer Tuberculosis and Health Association. She was a director of the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Northeastern Maine, and served on the Hospital Auxiliaries at the Eastern Maine General Hospital and St. Joseph?s Hospital. In 1970, she moved to the greater Portland area, where she worked as a real estate broker. There she met and married Warren Strout in 1977. Mrs. Strout is survived by her husband; her children, John Cornell of Brooklin, Maine, and New York City, N.Y, Peter Cornell of Wayland, Mass., and Catherine Cornell, M.D., of Northport; a sister, Bernice Bassett of Portland; and six grandchildren, Jared, Joshua, Alexandra, Margaret, Richard and Lily. Donations in Mrs. Strout?s memory may be made to the Palliative Care Unit of Maine Medical Center, Development Office, 22 Bramhall St., Portland, ME 04102.
  Person ID	I50344	1A William Bassett of Plymouth
  Last Modified	18 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Charles Edwin Bassett,   b. 4 Jul 1883, Eastport, Maine
  Mother	Katherine A. Leahy
  Family ID	F17779	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart