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- Clarion-Ledger, Friday, 8 June 1956
I.H. Bass, Jr. Is Wreck Victim
Was Flying Plane Over Brush Fire
LUMBERTON ? I.H. Bass, Jr., 42, son of the founder of the widely known Bass Pecan Nursery at Lumberton, was killed late Thursday afternoon when his private plane crashed and burned in a part of the 1500-acres pecan orchard.
Bass had been flying low over the area and had sighted a brush fire. He was attempting to signal a spraying outfit on the ground to come over and put out the fire.
Witnesses at work in the orchards said the Piper Cub in which Bass was flying started down and continued downward until it nosed into the group, burst into flames and burned before anyone could pull Bass from the cockpit. Some of the witnesses expressed the thought that Bass might have become ill or blacked out while in the plane.
Bass was vice-president of the Bass Pecan Company which his father I.H. Bass, Sr., headed. The Bass Pecan company is known over the world for its development and breeding work in pecans as well as for the fine nuts produced in the Bass orchards.
Born in Lumberton, Bass had lived most of his life here. He was a graduate of Mississippi State College, and had been flying his own plane for about six years. He was a member of the Presbyterian church.
Bass leaves his wife, Mrs. Edith Brown Bass, formerly of Jackson; two sons, I.H. Bass, III, and Claude Brown Bass; a brother, Ray Bass; three sisters, Mrs. F. B. High, Mrs. M.J. Eubanks, and Miss Hoyte Bass, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I.H. Bass, all of Lumberton.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete, but Bounds funeral home will probably have charge.
Hattiesburg American, Mississippi, 8 June 1956
Funeral at 5 Today For Houston Bass Jr. (Includes Picture)
Funeral services for Isaac Houston Bass Jr., 41, vice-president of the Bass Pecan Company of Lumberton, will be held at 5 p.m. today at the Lumberton City Cemetery.
Rev. Richard A. Park, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Hattiesburg, wil officiate. He will be assisted by Rev. J.W. Wood, pastor of Lumberton Baptist Church, and Rev. W.R. Dement, pastor of Lumberton Methodist Church.
Mr. Bass was killed about 4:35 p.m. Thursday when his plane crashed and burned five miles northwest of Lumberton. At the time of the accident he apparently was trying to signal workmen spraying teres concerning a fire elsewhere on the Bass land. Mr. Bass had been a pilot for six years and used his plane for business trips and in work on the 25,000 acres owned by the Bass family.
A member of a prominent South Mississippi family, he was the eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. bass Sr. Born October 19, 1914 in Lumberton, he attended grammar and high school at Lumberton and was graduated from Pearl River Junior College, Poplarville. He attended Soule Business College and Tulane University, New Orleans, and was graduated from Mississippi State College with the degree of bachelor of science in 1936.
He was married to Miss Edith Ellen Brown of Jackson on June 10, 1937. Their two sons are Isaac Houston III, born June 26, 1938, and recent graduate of Lumberton High School, and Claude Brown Bass, born Feb. 27, 1944.
Mr. Bass was vice-president of the company, founded by his grandfather, Isaac Esau Bass, and was active in the management of the world?s pecan nursery under the presidency of his father.
He was a past president of the Mississippi Florists? and Nurserymen?s Association and the Southeastern Pecan-Growers? Association. He was serving as a director of the latter organization at the time of his death.
He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church of Hattiesburg, where he had served as vestryman; the Lumberton Rotary Club and the Lumberton Public School board. Mr. Bass was active in Boy Scout work for many years and was councilman at large of the Tung Belt Boy Scout Council.
Mr. Bass is survived by his wife, and two sons; his parents, his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Isaac Esau Bass; three sisters, Mrs. M.J. Eubanks, Mrs. F.V. High and Miss Hoyt Bass, and a brother, Gaston Ray Bass, all of Lubmerton.
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1914 - 1956 (41 years)