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Watertown Daily Times, Watertown, New York, Thursday, 15 January 1976
Edna M. Bass
Miss Edna M. Bass, 86, of the Folts Home, Herkimer, formerly of 708 Academy St., a teacher in the Watertown School system for 47 years, died Wednesday at the Folts Home following a long illness.
The funeral will be Friday at 10 a.m. at the Folts Home Sanctuary with Rev. Gerald Kinney, superintendent of Folts Home, officiating. Burial will be at 2 p.m. at Brookside Cemetery here.
Calling hours are 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at Folts Home. Contributions may be made in her name to the Folts Home. Arrangements are with the Fenner Funeral Home, Herkimer.
She is survived by cousins including Mrs. Ralph (Iola Bass) Springer, Watertown.
Born in Watertown Aug. 12, 1889, a daughter of James G. and Louisa J. Hose Bass, she attended Academy Street School and was graduated from Watertown High School in 1907 and from the Watertown Teachers Training Class in 1911. She took additional college courses at Columbia University and Potsdam Normal School.
Miss Bass joined the Watertown school system in 1911 as a teacher in Arsenal Street School and was a second grade teacher for 32 years at Hamilton Street School prior to her retirement Feb. 1, 1958, after 47 years of service.
She was a 64-year member of Asbury United Methodist Church, a life member of the Watertown PTA, a member of the New York State Retired Teachers Association and the Gen. Nicholas Herkimer Chapter, D.A.R.
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1899 - 1976 (76 years)