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- Boston Herald, Massachusetts, Friday, November 15, 1940
C.R. Bassett, Yarmouth, Dies
Headed Selectmen For Past 40 Years
YARMOUTHPORT, Nov. 14 ? Charles R. Bassett, 75, chairman of the board of selectman in Yarmouth for the past 40 years, died late last night at the Cape Cod Hospital of pneumonia. He had been critically ill since Saturday.
Funeral services will be held at 2 P.M. Saturday at his home. Burial will be in Woodside cemetery.
One of the leaders in town and county civic affairs since he first took office in 1900, he was one of the oldest selectmen in point of consecutive service in Massachusetts. Organizer and first president of the Southeastern Massachusetts Association of health boards and secretary of the Cape Cod Health Bureau. He was author of the legislative bill which more than a decade ago established the Barnstable County Sanatorium at Pocasset.
Besides serving as chairman of the combined boards of selectmen, assessors and public welfare in Yarmouth, he was a representative to the General Court from the second Barnstable district in 1925 and 1926. He was a former associate county commissioner and a director of the Cape Cod Co-operative Bank, and was instrumental in the establishment of the Yarmouth Water Company. He was for 40 years a member of Howard lodge, A.F. and A.M. in South Yarmouth. A native of Barnstable, he was a son of the late Charles and Mary Howes Bassett.
Surviving are his widow, the former Mercy T. Nickerson of Yarmouth, whom he married Nov. 21, 1899; two sons, Charles Sidney Bassett of Sagamore and Harold Howes Bassett, and a daughter, Mrs. John E. Bernie of Quincy.
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