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- Gouverneur Tribune Press – Thursday, September 19, 2002
Ethel A. Bassett
DEKALB JUNCTION – Ethel Aldous Bassett, 97, formerly of Cousintown Road, died Saturday evening September 14, 2002 at Community Nursing Home, Potsdam.
Mrs. Bassett was a nurse’s aide at St. Lawrence State Hospital, Ogdensburg, and Gillette Nursing Home for many years.
She was a member of Richville Order of the Eastern Star and DeKalb Junction Senior Citizens and enjoyed reading, crocheting and taking senior citizens trips.
Born Jan. 23, 1905, in the town of Pierrepont, daughter of George Clark and Grace Fifield Crary, she attended school in Pierrepont and Canton.
She lived for a time with her grandparents, Adirondack poet George Lucien Crary and Julia Clark Crary.
She married J. Claude Aldous on Dec. 24, 1928, at Canton. The couple farmer on Rice and Cousintown roads. Mr. Aldous died Aug. 21, 1959.
She married Everett K. Bassett of Carthage on Sept. 8, 1973, at Alexandria Bay. Mr. Bassett, a retired employee of Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Co., Unionville, died Jan. 9, 1978.
Surviving are a son and his wife, Melbern and Grace Aldous, DeKalb Junction, with whom Mrs. Bassett lived for many years; two daughters and a son-in-law, Grace E. Bowles, Alexandria Bay, and Muriel and James Patton, Hermon; nine grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild.
A half sister, Edith M. Perkins, died before her.
The funeral was held at Green Funeral Home, Hermon, with the Rev. Leon B. Sweeney, pastor of Knapps Station Community Church, officiating. Burial was in Fairview Cemetery, Canton.
Donations may be made to Community Nursing Home, 20 Cottage St., Potsdam.
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