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- The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, Wednesday, 1 September 1948
Van Easton Bass
Services For Railroad Engineer To Be This Afternoon
Services for Van Easton Bass, locomotive engineer for the Missouri Pacific since the early 1920?s, will be held at 3 this afternoon at Cosmopolitan Funeral Home. Burial will be at Memorial Park> he was 54. Mr. Bass was stricken suddenly at his home Monday and died on arrival at Methodist Hospital from a heart ailment.
Born in Bassfield, Miss., he was a World War I veteran and served overseas. After the war he returned to Memphis and began working for the Missouri Pacific. He was a Mason and a Baptist.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Mildred Coleman Bass; his daughter, Mrs. B.C. McNeilly, and two grand-children, Billy Eaton McNeilley and Charles Michael McNeilly, all of Memphis; two brothers, Clifford Bass, Bassfield, and Alton Bass, government employe of Guam Island, and five sisters, Mrs. Stella Sibley, Ocean Springs, Miss.; Mrs. Nannie King, Vicksburg, Miss.; Mrs. Doris Whitehead, New Orleans; Mrs. Ruth Whitehead, West Point, Miss., and Miss Lucille Bass, Bassfield.
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