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- Bigfork Eagle, Montana, Thursday, March 18, 2010
Paul M. Bass Jr.
Paul M. Bass, Jr., of Dallas, Texas, died Tuesday, March 9, 2010, at the age of 74.
Bass was vice chairman of First Southwest Co., an investment-banking firm based in Dallas, and served on the board of directors of First Southwest Asset Management Inc. He also served as director and member of the Audit Committee of Comp X International.
He was born April 26, 1935, in Tyler, Texas, and, after service in the U.S. Air Force, graduated in 1957 from Southern Methodist University with a bachelor's degree in business administration.
In 2006, he received his alma mater's Distinguished Alumni Award, the highest honor the university bestows upon its graduates. He also received the SMU Cox School of Business Distinguished Alumni Award.
Decades of volunteer service and his tireless commitment to improving health care in Dallas for all its citizens earned him the 2003 Linz Award, Texas' oldest and most prestigious civic honor. He received numerous other awards and accolades.
In the 1980s he served as chairman of the Board of Managers of Parkland Memorial Hospital.
After his six-year term on the Parkland board was up, he turned his attention to its sister institutions ? UT Southwestern Medical Center, Zale Lipshy University Hospital, St. Paul Medical Center, Children's Medical Center Dallas, Parkland Foundation and Southwestern Medical Foundation ? serving in leadership capacities in each of these organizations, most recently as chairman of the board of Southwestern Medical Foundation from 1995 to 2008.
Bass also was a member of the Dallas Citizens Council and served as chairman of the Finance Committee of the State Fair of Texas and on the board of the Phoenix Houses of Texas.
For 41 years, he was an active member of the Salesmanship Club of Dallas and served as its president from 1990 to 1991.
He also had a home in Bigfork.
Bass is survived by his wife, Carla; his son, Paul M. Bass III and wife, Laura; his daughter, Catherine Bass Hawes, and husband, John M. Hawes III; John C. and Susan Rutledge, and Karen and Steave Wayman; and six grandchildren.
A service celebrating his life was held at 2 p.m. Monday, March 15, at Highland Park United Methodist Church.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to The Paul Bass Fund, c/o Southwestern Medical Foundation, 2305 Cedar Springs Road, Suite 150, Dallas, TX 75201-7805.
The Paul Bass Fund will support clinical cardiology in honor of Dr. John Warner and is designated for a new University Hospital or to The Salesmanship Club of Dallas, 400 S. Zang Blvd., PMB 77, Suite 700, Dallas, TX 75208-6642.
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