Greenwood News, 1 November 1935, p. 1,8
Bass Rites to Be Solemnized Here This Afternoon
Former Local School Instructor Succumbs to Strange Malady
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella I. Bass will be held from the Presbyterian church Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. Alexander L. Miyat, pastor of the local congregation. Interment will be in the Greenwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Bass passed away at the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis at 1:25 o'clock Wednesday morning. She had not been in good health for the past years and a half, but was not confined to her bed until about four weeks ago. Her condition became critical on Sunday and she was taken to the hospital, where specialists said that she could not survive longer than Wednesday. She was suffering from a rather unusual disease which attacks and destroys the white corpuscles in the blood, a disease which in almost every instance, cause death.
Perhaps the woman in the Greenwood community was better known as more universally loved than was Mrs. Bass. She had been so closely associated with the schools that everyone knew her.
Mrs. Bass was born in Indianapolis, the daughter of Joseph and Alice Irwin. When she was quite young, the family moved to Southport and she spent her girlhood days there. At the age of sixteen she began teaching in the township schools and later attended DePauw University and a normal school in Ohio. Again their residence changed to Indianapolis and for several years during the 90's she taught in the schools of that city.
In 1894 she was married to Mark K. Bass, a son of William Bass of this city, and in 1908 they moved to Tacoma, Washington, for residence. They had resided there for five years when Mr. Bass was called here by the serious illness of his father. While enroute home he was taken ill and forced to remain in Boise City, Idaho, for a week before continuing the journey to Tacoma. After reaching home he grew worse and passed away about two weeks later. The family, which consisted of Mrs. Bass and her two sons, William Irwin, and Maurice L., returned to Greenwood for residence.
She was for many years a member of the Presbyterian church.
Mrs. Bass became head of the Domestic Science Department in the Greenwood schools, a position which she held for several years. Her next position was with the YWCA at Indianapolis and later at the Eliza Baker School.
A little over four years ago Mrs. Bass went to Franklin College when she took a position as cook at the Phi Delta House, a position she enjoyed because of the opportunity it offered to be associated with young people. Here she made many acquaintances and the members of the fraternity held her in the highest esteem.
She was forced to give up this work about a month before the close of the school year in 1934 because of ill health.
Surviving Mrs. Bass are the two sons, William Irwin Bass, of Baltimore, Maryland, with whom she spent quite some time this summer, and Maurice L. Bass of Greenwood. Three grandchildren also survive.
Bass Rites to Be Solemnized Here This Afternoon
Former Local School Instructor Succumbs to Strange Malady
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella I. Bass will be held from the Presbyterian church Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. Alexander L. Miyat, pastor of the local congregation. Interment will be in the Greenwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Bass passed away at the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis at 1:25 o'clock Wednesday morning. She had not been in good health for the past years and a half, but was not confined to her bed until about four weeks ago. Her condition became critical on Sunday and she was taken to the hospital, where specialists said that she could not survive longer than Wednesday. She was suffering from a rather unusual disease which attacks and destroys the white corpuscles in the blood, a disease which in almost every instance, cause death.
Perhaps the woman in the Greenwood community was better known as more universally loved than was Mrs. Bass. She had been so closely associated with the schools that everyone knew her.
Mrs. Bass was born in Indianapolis, the daughter of Joseph and Alice Irwin. When she was quite young, the family moved to Southport and she spent her girlhood days there. At the age of sixteen she began teaching in the township schools and later attended DePauw University and a normal school in Ohio. Again their residence changed to Indianapolis and for several years during the 90's she taught in the schools of that city.
In 1894 she was married to Mark K. Bass, a son of William Bass of this city, and in 1908 they moved to Tacoma, Washington, for residence. They had resided there for five years when Mr. Bass was called here by the serious illness of his father. While enroute home he was taken ill and forced to remain in Boise City, Idaho, for a week before continuing the journey to Tacoma. After reaching home he grew worse and passed away about two weeks later. The family, which consisted of Mrs. Bass and her two sons, William Irwin, and Maurice L., returned to Greenwood for residence.
She was for many years a member of the Presbyterian church.
Mrs. Bass became head of the Domestic Science Department in the Greenwood schools, a position which she held for several years. Her next position was with the YWCA at Indianapolis and later at the Eliza Baker School.
A little over four years ago Mrs. Bass went to Franklin College when she took a position as cook at the Phi Delta House, a position she enjoyed because of the opportunity it offered to be associated with young people. Here she made many acquaintances and the members of the fraternity held her in the highest esteem.
She was forced to give up this work about a month before the close of the school year in 1934 because of ill health.
Surviving Mrs. Bass are the two sons, William Irwin Bass, of Baltimore, Maryland, with whom she spent quite some time this summer, and Maurice L. Bass of Greenwood. Three grandchildren also survive.
Greenwood News, 1 November 1935, p. 1,8
Bass Rites to Be Solemnized Here This Afternoon
Former Local School Instructor Succumbs to Strange Malady
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella I. Bass will be held from the Presbyterian church Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. Alexander L. Miyat, pastor of the local congregation. Interment will be in the Greenwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Bass passed away at the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis at 1:25 o'clock Wednesday morning. She had not been in good health for the past years and a half, but was not confined to her bed until about four weeks ago. Her condition became critical on Sunday and she was taken to the hospital, where specialists said that she could not survive longer than Wednesday. She was suffering from a rather unusual disease which attacks and destroys the white corpuscles in the blood, a disease which in almost every instance, cause death.
Perhaps the woman in the Greenwood community was better known as more universally loved than was Mrs. Bass. She had been so closely associated with the schools that everyone knew her.
Mrs. Bass was born in Indianapolis, the daughter of Joseph and Alice Irwin. When she was quite young, the family moved to Southport and she spent her girlhood days there. At the age of sixteen she began teaching in the township schools and later attended DePauw University and a normal school in Ohio. Again their residence changed to Indianapolis and for several years during the 90's she taught in the schools of that city.
In 1894 she was married to Mark K. Bass, a son of William Bass of this city, and in 1908 they moved to Tacoma, Washington, for residence. They had resided there for five years when Mr. Bass was called here by the serious illness of his father. While enroute home he was taken ill and forced to remain in Boise City, Idaho, for a week before continuing the journey to Tacoma. After reaching home he grew worse and passed away about two weeks later. The family, which consisted of Mrs. Bass and her two sons, William Irwin, and Maurice L., returned to Greenwood for residence.
She was for many years a member of the Presbyterian church.
Mrs. Bass became head of the Domestic Science Department in the Greenwood schools, a position which she held for several years. Her next position was with the YWCA at Indianapolis and later at the Eliza Baker School.
A little over four years ago Mrs. Bass went to Franklin College when she took a position as cook at the Phi Delta House, a position she enjoyed because of the opportunity it offered to be associated with young people. Here she made many acquaintances and the members of the fraternity held her in the highest esteem.
She was forced to give up this work about a month before the close of the school year in 1934 because of ill health.
Surviving Mrs. Bass are the two sons, William Irwin Bass, of Baltimore, Maryland, with whom she spent quite some time this summer, and Maurice L. Bass of Greenwood. Three grandchildren also survive.
Bass Rites to Be Solemnized Here This Afternoon
Former Local School Instructor Succumbs to Strange Malady
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella I. Bass will be held from the Presbyterian church Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. Alexander L. Miyat, pastor of the local congregation. Interment will be in the Greenwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Bass passed away at the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis at 1:25 o'clock Wednesday morning. She had not been in good health for the past years and a half, but was not confined to her bed until about four weeks ago. Her condition became critical on Sunday and she was taken to the hospital, where specialists said that she could not survive longer than Wednesday. She was suffering from a rather unusual disease which attacks and destroys the white corpuscles in the blood, a disease which in almost every instance, cause death.
Perhaps the woman in the Greenwood community was better known as more universally loved than was Mrs. Bass. She had been so closely associated with the schools that everyone knew her.
Mrs. Bass was born in Indianapolis, the daughter of Joseph and Alice Irwin. When she was quite young, the family moved to Southport and she spent her girlhood days there. At the age of sixteen she began teaching in the township schools and later attended DePauw University and a normal school in Ohio. Again their residence changed to Indianapolis and for several years during the 90's she taught in the schools of that city.
In 1894 she was married to Mark K. Bass, a son of William Bass of this city, and in 1908 they moved to Tacoma, Washington, for residence. They had resided there for five years when Mr. Bass was called here by the serious illness of his father. While enroute home he was taken ill and forced to remain in Boise City, Idaho, for a week before continuing the journey to Tacoma. After reaching home he grew worse and passed away about two weeks later. The family, which consisted of Mrs. Bass and her two sons, William Irwin, and Maurice L., returned to Greenwood for residence.
She was for many years a member of the Presbyterian church.
Mrs. Bass became head of the Domestic Science Department in the Greenwood schools, a position which she held for several years. Her next position was with the YWCA at Indianapolis and later at the Eliza Baker School.
A little over four years ago Mrs. Bass went to Franklin College when she took a position as cook at the Phi Delta House, a position she enjoyed because of the opportunity it offered to be associated with young people. Here she made many acquaintances and the members of the fraternity held her in the highest esteem.
She was forced to give up this work about a month before the close of the school year in 1934 because of ill health.
Surviving Mrs. Bass are the two sons, William Irwin Bass, of Baltimore, Maryland, with whom she spent quite some time this summer, and Maurice L. Bass of Greenwood. Three grandchildren also survive.
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