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- San Antonio Express, Texas, Monday, 6 October 1980
Robert Bass rites Monday
Robert Willis Bass, executive secretary of the Del Salvador Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, died Saturday.
A San Antonio resident of the past 18 years, Bass was 53.
Services for Bass whose religious leadership was known in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana, are set Monday at Rader Funeral Home in Kilgore.
A memorial service is scheduled 11 a.m. Wednesday at Northwoods Presbyterian Church.
Bass was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Kilgore. He served in the Air Force during World War II and later attended the University of Oklahoma, earning a degree in petroleum engineering.
He was chief executive officer of Robert M. Bass Drilling Co., but later sold the business to work for the Presbyterian Church in San Antonio.
He is former associate secretary and executive secretary of the John Knox Presytery, an board member and charter member and charter member of the Texas Conference of Churches, an inter-denominational statewide church group.
In 1973, he was named the first moderator of the four state Synod of the Red River in the Presbyterian Church also is credited with unifying the Presbytery Del Salvador of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., and the Alamo Presbytery of the U.S. Presbyterian Church.
He also was an elder of Northwood Presbyterian Church.
Survivors include his wife, Florence McElwee Bass, of San Antonio; daughter, Susan Bass Griffith of Casper, Wyo.; sons, Robert E. Bass of Arlington and John David Bass of San Antonio; sisters, Lucy Bass Hill of Dallas and Martha Bass Jones of Denton; brother, Richard M. Bassett of Dallas and his mother, Sarah Bronstad, of Kilgore.
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