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- Danville, Virginia, 13 October 1953
City Councilman Curtis Bass Dies Following Heart Attack
Vice-Mayor Curtis Marion Bass died last night of a heart seisure which occurred shortly after he reached his home at 10:15 p.m. from a meeting of the City Council.
Bass was active in the monthly Council session, at which he made five motions. During a brief conference held following the regular meeting he jestingly exchanged wisecracks with his colleages concerdning the smoke control program. He apearedo be in good spirits. As usual, he lingered a few minutes to chat with other councilman and then drove to his home at the corner of Holbrook Avenue and Paxtor.
The heart seizure struck shortly after he arrived. Dr. H.J. Langston, a close personal friend and his family physician, arrived within minutes and adminstered treatment. When it seemd that Bass had responded favorably, the physician departed, oly to hear the telephone ringing when he reached his home in Forest Hills. It was an urgent request ot return to the Bass home. Speeding back to his patient and arriving as an ambulane brought oxygen, Dr. Langston and the ambulance crew worked some 20 minutes trying to revive breathing and heart action. The effort failed.
Death was recorded as having occurred at 10:47 p.m.
Bass, a native of Danville, was born July 19, 1908, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter V. Bass. He lived here all his wlife, except udring an enlistment period in the U.S. Navy.
As a young man, Curtis Bass went to work for the Danville Printing Company, where he learned the trade and continued working as a journeyman printer. Later he bought the business and has operated it since.
In addition to his business activity, he took an increaseingly broadening part in community affairs.
As chairman of the Aviation Committee of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1942, he was business manager of the Pre-Flight School which the Jaycees conducted ? their larges and most profitable project.
At the time of his death, Mr. Bass was vice-chairman of the official board of Moseley Memorial Methodist Church, with which he had been actively affiliated for many years.
He served as president of the (Continued on Page Two)
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