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- The Otsego Farmer, Cooperstown, New York
Friday, 25 Feb 1938, Obituary
Dr. Charlie Gibson Bassett
Dr. Charlie Gibson Bassett, aged seventy-six, for over forty years a
practicing dentist in Otsego and Delaware counties, passed away at the Mary
Imogene Bassett Hospital early Saturday morning after a brief illness of
pneumonia.
Dr. Bassett was born in Morris, July 27, 1861, the son of Dr. Lyman
DeWilton and Amanda (Gibson) Bassett. He attended the Morris schools and was
graduated from the New York College of Dentistry in 1890. Following
graduation, he started practice in Sidney where he was located for thir
years. During this period he also maintained an office in Franklin. In 1923 he
moved to Cherry Valley where he practiced his profession until his retirement
in October, 1935, after which he and Mrs. Bassett came to Cooperstown a
maintained their residence at the Clara Welch Thanksgiving hom
Dr. Bassett married Miss Anna Louise Heckel of Cobleskill on June 10,
1891, who survived together with an only son, Dr. Lyman DeWilton Bassett of
Cobleskill.
Dr. Bassett was a devout Christian and his interests centered in the
church and Masonic organizations. During his residence in Sidney he w
vestryman of St. Paul’s church and in Cherry Valley, a vestryman of Gra
Episcopal church. One of his most cherished possessions was a framed
expression from his fellow workers in the Cherry Valley church electing him
an honorary vestryman, on his removal to Cooperstown. It was the only such
designation existing in the Albany diocese of the Episcopal church, taking the
form of a resolution adopted by the parish offices given “in appreciation of
the unflagging interest which Dr. Bassett had always taken in the welfare and
temporal concern of his church, and his loyalty and devotion to his spiritual
well-being and his constant effort to advance and promote its influence among
his fellow-workers, and the congregation and community in general.
Dr. Bassett on coming to Cooperstown, became a member of Christ church
and of Otsego Lodge, Chapter and Commandery, Knights Templar, and al
Ziyara Temple of the Mystic Shrine in Utica.
Dr. Bassett always had a keen interest in horses and one of his
favorite pastimes was a canter on his own mount.
The funeral was held Monday afternoon from Christ church with t
rector, the Rev. Jackson L. Cole, officiating. Interment was made in the
family plot in Cobleskill cemetery. Officers of Otsego Commandery, Knights
Templar, had charge of a Masonic service Sunday evening at the Brown and
Tillapaugh Funeral home. The ritual was conducted by Lloyd A. Thompson,
commander, and the Rev. Charles Kramer, Carl J. Pierce, and Monroe F. Augur.
In the death of Dr. Bassett a wide circle of friends and former
clients will experience a keen personal loss.
The simple story of Dr. Bassett’s life, his devotion to the things he
loved, his family, his profession, his Lodge, his church – what better things
can a man love than these? – is in itself an obituary to complete that the
briefest comment seems an intrusion. But no one who had like the writer, known
him professionally and personally for forty years could let farewell be said
without mention of the rare quality which endeared him to old friends and new
and charmed even the passing stranger – his childlike gaiety. Dr. Bassett met,
in his long life, as all men must, joy and sorrow, anxiety, disappointment,
physical suffering, and he met them with a spirit so happily undaunted that,
to the very end, he always had an abundance of cheer to share with others.
“Dr. Bassett was a lovely person,” said a new acquaintance, “he was always so
gay.”
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