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Suffers Broken Arm
A.S. Bass, proprietor of a local bus line, is improving at his home here after suffering a broken left arm a fortnight ago. Mr. Bass was attending the annual meeting of the South Carolina Bus Operator Association, held at Folly Beach, near Charleston, and lost his footing when he stepped off a veranda. He says that the injured member has been causing him great pain until the last day or two.
Yorkville Enquire
South Carolina
Tuesday, May 31, 1910
Wedding
A wedding of interest to a large number of Gastonians was celebrated yesterday morning at the home of Reverend and Mrs. W.L. C. Killian, on South Broad Street, when their daughter, Miss Edith Killian, became the bride of Mr. Avery Bass of Chester, South Carolina. The wedding was a very quiet affair, the ceremony being said in the presence of a few close friends and relatives of the parties by Reverend G.D. Herman, pastor of Main Street Methodist Church. Immediately after the marriage Mr. and Mrs. Bass left over the northbound Canadian & North Western for Edgemont where they will spend several days, after which they will be at home near Chester. Miss Killian ia a most excellent young lady and has a large number of friends here and elsewhere. The groom is an employee of the Canadian & North Western and a young man of many good qualities. Their numerous friends are congratulating them on the happy event.
State, Columbia, South Carolina, Friday, October 16, 1953
Laurens Man Killed, Another Badly Hurt in Wreck Near Union
A.S. Bass Is Victim; Was Hotel Owner
Special to The State
UNION, Oct. 15 ? One man was instantly killed and another seriously injured in a truck and automobile collision near Union at 1:30 this morning.
A.S. (Avery Sumter)) Bass, 72, hotel owner of Laurens, was fatally injuired, an dhis 56-year-old employe and companion, Will Byrd, driver of the automobile, is in a Laurens hospital with a factured skull.
Mr. Bass was credited with being the founder of the Ded Dot and Carolina Scenic Bus Lines.
Sheriff Rochelle Boyle of Union said that Thomas Reavis, 24, of Atlanta, Ga., driver of the truck was unhurt.
The sheriff quoted Mr. Reavis as saying that the autobmile appeared to be skidding and that he, Reavis pulled to the side, with two of his truck wheels off the road. It was then that the two vehicles made contact.
The accident occurred on the Calhoun highway, between WHitmire and Union, on a curve near the Roger?s Ferry River bridge. The truck was going east and the auto heading west.
The carry-all was loaded, the Union sheriff said, with three new Chevrolet pick-up trucks and a ton and half Chevrolet truck. The carrier fell off the road onto a 15 foot fill landing on its side breaking away from the dab, and considerable damaged by fire. The Bass car damage was from the head-on collison only.
Mr. Bass? body was brought to the Edgar ? Brown ? Bailey Funeral Home in Union but later transferred to a mortuary in Laurens.
Coroner George S. Noland of Union said that an inquest would be held.
Funeral services for Mr. Bass will be conducted at 3 o?clock Friday afternoon from the Kennedy Mortuary Chapel, Laurens, by the Rev. W.B. Garrett. D.D. of Laurens, and the Rev. M.E. Derrick of Columbia. Interment will be in Mountain View cemetery at Greer.
Pallbearers will be Ware Killian, Don Wilson, J.T. Bass, Jesse Bass, Richard Wilson and Ansel Boling.
Mr. Bass was bor in Fairfield County, the son of J.J. and Dora Etta Killian Bass. He was engaged in the transportation business for many years of his life and for the past 20 years in the hotel business. He had been living here for five years and was a member of the First Methodist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ruth Wilson Bass; two children by a former marriage, A.C. Bass of Spartanburg and Mrs. Wallace R. Camp of Newberry; two brothers, H.L. Bass of Hannon, Ala., and John J. Bass of Chester, and one grandchild. His first wife was the late Mrs. Edith Killian Bass.
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1881 - 1953 (72 years)