Claude Ashley Bass

1914 - 1988  (74 years)

• Name	Claude Ashley Bass
  Birth	1914
  Gender	Male
  Death	1988
  Notes	Richmond Times-Dispatch, Virginia, Saturday, August 27, 1988 Claude Bass, EX-FBI Man, Dies at 74 Claude Ashley Bass, a retired FBI agent and assistant director of the Virginia Law Enforcement Officers Training Standards Commission, died Thursday after a long illness. He was 74. A native of Petersburg, he was graduated from Crewe High School in 1930. He attended Wake Forest College and received a law degree there. After practicing law for six months, Mr. Bass joined the FBI, which he served for 33 years until retiring in 1971. He then joined the state training standards commission as its assistant director. He retired from that position in 1978. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Anne Helen Bass, a son, Claude A. Bass Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. Nancy Irene Bass Hewitt, all of Richmond. A funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Laburnum Chapel of Woody's Funeral Home, 2210 E. Laburnum Ave.
  Person ID	I52064	1A William Bassett of Plymouth
  Last Modified	6 May 2026

  
  

  Father	Willis Lee Bass,   b. 20 Dec 1886, Virginia d. 19 Apr 1965, Crewe, Nottoway County, Virginia (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Amanda Virginia Kesterson,   b. 1891   d. 1968 (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F18214	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne Helen Barclay,   b. Montreal, Canada d. 19 May 1999
  Children	+ 1. Claude Ashley Bass, Jr. + 2. Nancy Bass
  Family ID	F3004	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 May 2026