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- Amarillo Globe-News, July 18, 2005
Opal H. Bass
DALHART - Opal H. Bass, 88, died Saturday, July 16, 2005.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Dalhart Memorial Park Cemetery with Dr. Clifford Dane, minister to senior adults of First Baptist Church of Dalhart, officiating. Arrangements are by Horizon Funeral Home.
Mrs. Bass was born Oct. 7, 1916, in Belveder, Kan., to Nellie Bly Van Noss Hoeffliger and John Mikel Hoeffliger. While still a young girl, her family moved to the Texas Panhandle and lived in the Perico area. She met her future husband, James Lollie Bass Sr. while she was attending school in Perico. She and Lollie were married in Clayton, N.M., in 1931, and they continued to live in the Perico area. They had only one child, a son, J.L. Bass Jr.
Her family moved to Dalhart in 1939, where she continued to live until Aug. 26, 2003, when Opal fell and broke her hip. She was transferred to Amarillo for surgery and was then in rehab and assisted living at Bivins Memorial Nursing Home in Amarillo. At the end of March 2003, she moved into Cooper Villa, an assisted living community in Arlington. Opal was called home July 16. Opal was a member of "The Greatest Generation," living through the Great Depression and World War II. She had a good spirit and a genuine love for people and life. She found great joy being close to her grandchildren as they were growing up.
She was preceded in death by her father; her mother; four sisters; and two brothers.
Survivors include a brother, Roy John Hoeffliger, who is a resident of Coon Memorial Home in Dalhart; a son, J.L. Bass Jr. of Arlington; three grandchildren, Stewart Bass of Haltom City, Brenda Wiemann and husband, Keith, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Sherman Bass and wife, Patricia, of Amarillo; and four great-grandsons, Taylor and Trevor Wiemann and Brandon and James Sherman Bass.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1916 - 2005 (88 years)