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- Watertown Daily Times, New York, Thursday, November 21, 1991
Bessie Bass, Ex-Secretary, Dies
Bessie Rose Bass, 92, formerly of LaFargeville, widow of Claude Bass, died Tuesday evening at Cedars Nursing Home, Ogdensburg, where she had been a resident since Aug. 2, 1989.
There will be no funeral or calling hours. A memorial service will be held at a later date at the convenience of the family. The body was cremated.
Arrangements were with the Frederick Brothers Funeral Home, Theresa. Burial was in Grove Cemetery.
Surviving are a sister, Ordia Hughto, LaFargeville, nieces and nephews.
Two sisters, Bernice Jones and Lula Hinckley, died before her.
Born July 11, 1899, in Bangor, daughter of Frank and Mary Sanford Bombard, she graduated from Brushton High School and from the Watertown School of Commerce.
She was legal secretary for Attorney Clarence Crabbe and then for former County Judge Milton A. Wiltse.
A marriage to Richard C. Maxwell in 1934 ended in divorce.
She married Claude Bass of Clayton on June 5, 1948, in Watertown.
Mr. Bass died March 13, 1982.
Mrs. Bass lived in LaFargeville until she was hospitalized.
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