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- Greensboro Daily News
North Carolina
Friday, January 20, 1978
Mount Vernon Church Minister Dies
High Point - Reverend Fredrick Odell Bass Sr. of 1018 Meadowbrook Boulevard died Tuesday morning at High Point Memorial Hospital.
Funeral will be 2 p.m. today at Mount Vernon Baptist Church, where he was a minister, with the Reverend James Ballard officiating. Burial will be at Carolina Biblical Gardens.
A native of Durham, he graduated from Hillside High School and received his A.B. Degree from North Carolina College (N.C. Central University) in Durham. While in college he was acting pastor of the Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Durham and also studied at Shaw University School of Divinity in Raleigh. He served at First Baptist Church in Reidsville and became pastor of the Mount Vernon Baptist Church in High Point in 1942.
He was a charter member and the first black secretary of the High Point Integrated Ministerial Alliance. He was a member of the Mayorâ??s Committee, High Point Memorial Hospital Improvement Board, the NAACP and the Rowan Baptist Association, a charter member of the Ordination Counciling of Rowan Baptist Association, member of the General Baptist Convention of North Carolina and the National Baptist Convention.
Surviving are wife, Mrs. Marian Holmes Bass; sons, Fredrick Odell Bass Jr. of Interdenominational Theology Center in Atlanta, Georgia, Thomas Adrian Bass of Moorehouse College in Atlanta.
The body is at Hoover Funeral Home.
1950 Federal Census of High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina (5 Apr 1950)
Fredrick O. Bass Neg 37 M Head NC Pastor Church
Marian H. Neg 25 F Wife NC Practical Nurse City Hospital
Fredrick O. Jr. Neg 1 M Son NC
Gracie Neg 79 F Mother NC (Wd)
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1913 - 1978 (65 years)