Bassett Family Association Database
Verna Ann (Vernie) Culver
1881 - 1968 (87 years)-
Name Verna Ann (Vernie) Culver Born 4 Oct 1881 Webster County, Iowa Gender Female _UID 1AA6174572ADEA44B8CD6CAB927E6815924D Died 17 Oct 1968 Webster County, Iowa Buried McGuire Bend Cemetery, Dayton, Webster County, Iowa Notes - Fort Dodge Messenger, Iowa, October 19, 1968
Mrs. Jeff (Vernie) Bass
Funeral services for Mrs. Jeff (Vernie) Bass, 87, long time Dayton area resident were held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, October 19 at the McGuire United Brethren church near Dayton. The burial was held in the McGuire Bend cemetery.
Mrs. Bass passed away Thursday morning, October 17, at the Colonial Acres Nursing home in Gowrie where she had been a patient the past four months. She had been in ill health for several years.
Vernie Culver, daughter of George and Jane Rucker Culver, was born October 4, 1881, at Burnside, IA. She was reared and educated at Burnside and resided with her family for a brief time in Kansas.
She was united in marriage March 14, 1901, to Jeff Bass, and the couple farmed the Mineral Ridge community in Boone county. In 1918, the family moved to a farm northeast of Dayton where they lived until 1932, moving then to a farm in Yell township, Webster county.
Following the death of her husband October 2, 1957, Mrs. Bass made her home with a daughter, Mrs. Jess Osborn of Lehigh, later moving to Fort Dodge.
In addition to her husband, she was preceeded in death by one son who died in infancy, by a daughter, Mrs. Regina Long, who died in 1960; by parents, several brothers and sisters.
Mrs. Bass was a member of the McGuire Bend United Brethren church.
Person ID I39391 1A William Bassett of Plymouth Last Modified 22 Dec 2021
Family Thomas Jefferson (Jeff) Bass, b. 31 Oct 1881, Boone County, Iowa , d. 2 Oct 1957, Fort Dodge, Webster County, Iowa (Age 75 years) Married 14 Mar 1901 Children 1. Floyd Bass, b. 1902, d. 1903 (Age 1 years) 2. Bessie Marie Bass, b. 28 Oct 1903, Boone County, Iowa , d. 11 Feb 1992, Texas (Age 88 years) 3. Lillian Myrtle Bass, b. Abt 1905, d. 2002 (Age ~ 97 years) 4. Opal Sylvia Bass, b. 15 Jan 1907, Boone County, Iowa , d. 7 Feb 1969, Boone County, Iowa (Age 62 years) + 5. Arthur Richard Bass, b. 19 Nov 1910, Iowa , d. 6 Nov 1975 (Age 64 years) 6. Nellie Mae Bass, b. 13 Sep 1912, Boone County, Iowa , d. 10 Sep 1997 (Age 84 years) 7. Dora Irene Bass, b. 15 Aug 1915, Webster County, Iowa , d. 12 Apr 2001 (Age 85 years) 8. Beulah Ione Bass, b. 10 Jul 1917, d. 26 Dec 1995 (Age 78 years) 9. Dorothy Regina Bass, b. 1 Dec 1920, d. 5 Oct 1960 (Age 39 years) Last Modified 22 Dec 2021 Family ID F13866 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- Fort Dodge Messenger, Iowa, October 19, 1968