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- The Times-Herald, Newnan, Georgia, Friday, May 23, 2003
James William Bass Jr.
Mr. James William Bass Jr., 60, of Newnan, Ga., died Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at Newnan Hospital West after an extended illness. Mr. Bass was born in 1942 to James and Vassie Bass in Newnan where he grew up, attended schools, and spent all of his life except for a tour of duty in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Mr. Bass was a Recon Rifleman during the Vietnam era and earned the designation of Sharpshooter. He worked for the Carroll County Public Works Department, was an active member of the Georgia State Defense Force, a volunteer at the McIntosh Indian Reservation in Whitesburg and a member of the First Pentecostal Holiness Church in Newnan. H will be remembered as a loving and kind husband, father and grandfather, who was always helping others.
Mr. Bass is survived by his wife of 39 years, Mrs. Joan Marie Bass; parents, Vassie and Thomas Slayton; a son, James W. BAss III, three daughters, Tammy Lynn Jackson, Angela Darlene Bass and Lisa May Newton; two sisters, Linda Moat and Judy Stroud; five grandchildren and one great grandchild, several nieces and nephews and many friends.
The family will receive friends at Jones Funeral Home 5-8 p.m. Thursday, May 22. A funeral will be at Jones Funeral Home chapel at 11 a.m. Friday, May 23. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Memorial Park with full military honors.
Jones Funeral Home, Newnan, Ga.
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1942 - 2003 (60 years)