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Tandy Giddings Bassett

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Tandy Giddings Bassett

Birth
Monroe County, Missouri, USA
Death
6 Oct 1945 (aged 86)
San Diego, San Diego County, California, USA
Burial
Paris, Monroe County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
Plot
V-24
Memorial ID
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He worked at the court house.
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Moberly Monitor Index, Moberly, Mo., Oct. 9, 1945--
Word was received here (Paris Mo.) yesterday of the death in San Diego, Cal., of Tandy Giddings Bassett, 85, former Paris resident.
Mr. Bassett was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sapleton Bassett, and was prominent in business here. He was associated with the Bassett Dry Goods Company for 60 years, first with his father and later with his brother, George B. Bassett.
He retired several years ago when is health began to fail and he went to California to live with his daughter, Miss Vinnie Bassett. Although his health had been failing for several years, his death was unexpected.
Mr. Bassett was well known by wool buyers throughout the east and middle-west, for he bought wool and sold it directly to the mills for 60 years.
He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and of the Paris Christian Church. His wife and one daughter, Estelle Bassett, preceded him in death.
Besides the daughter at whose home he died, he is survived by another daughter, Mrs. Ralph Ballou of Paris; two brothers, Maj. Arthur Bassett of San Francisco, Cal., and Will Bassett of O'Fallon, Ill.
The body was returned to Paris, with arrangements announced later.
He worked at the court house.
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Moberly Monitor Index, Moberly, Mo., Oct. 9, 1945--
Word was received here (Paris Mo.) yesterday of the death in San Diego, Cal., of Tandy Giddings Bassett, 85, former Paris resident.
Mr. Bassett was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sapleton Bassett, and was prominent in business here. He was associated with the Bassett Dry Goods Company for 60 years, first with his father and later with his brother, George B. Bassett.
He retired several years ago when is health began to fail and he went to California to live with his daughter, Miss Vinnie Bassett. Although his health had been failing for several years, his death was unexpected.
Mr. Bassett was well known by wool buyers throughout the east and middle-west, for he bought wool and sold it directly to the mills for 60 years.
He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and of the Paris Christian Church. His wife and one daughter, Estelle Bassett, preceded him in death.
Besides the daughter at whose home he died, he is survived by another daughter, Mrs. Ralph Ballou of Paris; two brothers, Maj. Arthur Bassett of San Francisco, Cal., and Will Bassett of O'Fallon, Ill.
The body was returned to Paris, with arrangements announced later.


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