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- Richmond Times-Dispatch, Virginia, Tuesday, 16 November 1954
Mrs. Bass, 96, Virginia Native, Dies in Durham
Mrs. Mary Billard Bass, 96, died Monday at her home in Durham, N.C. A native of Edgewood, Amherst County, Virginia, she had lived in Durham since 1885.
Mrs. Bass, widow of Herbert J. Bass, had served as a trustee of Duke University and as a member of Durham?s Board of Aldermen.
She is survived by two sons, Edwin Bass, of Richmond, and Thomas Bass, of Greensboro, N.C.; a daughter, Mrs. Maude Bass Heflin, of Durham; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held at 4 P.M. Wednesday at Duke memorial Church, with burial in Maplewood Cemetery, Durham.
1900 Federal Census of Durham, Durham County, North Carolina (June 11, 1900)
Herbert Bass - 43 - Male - Jan 1857 - NC-NC-NC - Head - Tobacconist
Mary - 41 - Female - Oct 1858 - NC-NC-NC - Wife
Edwin J. - 10 - Male - Oct 1889 - NC-NC-NC - Son - At school
Mary A. - 7 - Female - Jun 1892 - NC-NC-NC - Daughter - At school
Maude B. - 6 - Female - May 1894 - NC-NC-NC - Daughter
Thomas W. - 1 - Male - Jan 1899 - NC-NC-NC - Son
Anna B. Buxton - 14 - Female - Mar 1886 - NC-NC-NC - Niece - At school
(Married 16 years, 7 children, 4 living)
Durham Sun, North Carolina
Tuesday, November 16, 1954
Mrs. Mary D. Bass
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Dillard Bass, 96, of Markham Apartments, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 4 o??clock at Duke Memorial Church. The Reverend E.B. Fisher, pastor, will conduct the rites. Interment will be in the family plot of Maplewood Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be C.E. Cooke, L.W. Hannen, S.J.U. Angier, E.S. Swindell Jr., Southgate Jones Jr., W.L. Bryan Jr., H. Dillard Bass and James C. Williams Jr.
Mrs. Bass died yesterday at 5:30 p.m. at her home. She was the widow of Herbert Jones Bass, and the daughter of General Terisha Washington Dillard and Mary Elizabeth Dillard.
She was born at ??Edgewood? the home of her grandfather, Colonel William Dillard, in Amherst County, Virginia. She later moved to ??Islington? on the banks of the James River in Amherst County, where she spent her girlhood and was married.
She moved to Durham from Lynchburg, Virginia, with her husband in 1885. Mr. Bass later became a city alderman and a trustee of Trinity College.
Mrs. Bass, an accomplished musician, was confined to her home during recent years, but continued membership in Duke Memorial Church and the General Davie Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Maude Bass Heflin of the home; two sons, Edwin Yates Bass of Richmond, Virginia, and Thomas Dillard Bass of Greensboro; and five great-grandchildren.
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