Corley Edward Bass

1896 - 1959  (63 years)

• Name	Corley Edward Bass
  Birth	2 Oct 1896	Liberty, DeKalb County, Tennessee
  Gender	Male
  _UID	7BB45F5389BD724C8673E8CBCA723EE2EDE8
  Death	4 Dec 1959	Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
  Notes	Nashville Banner, Tennessee, Saturday, 5 December 1959 Corley E. Bass Rites Sunday Piano Salesman Services for Corley Edward Bass, salesman for Claude P. Street Piano Co., will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Finley, Dorris and Chariton Funeral Home. Officiating will be the Rev. Farris F. Moore, minister of the Belmont Methodist Church, and Dr. E.P. Anderson, associate minister of the Church. Burial will follow in Woodlawn Memorial Park. Mr. bass was 63 years old. He died Friday afternoon at St. Thomas Hospital after suffering a heart attack. Mr. Bass, who resided at 2120 Fairfax Ave., was born in Dowelltown. He was a son of Wingate H. and Carrie Corley Bass and moved to Nashville as a young man. He had been associated with the piano firm for 39 years. At the time of his death, his sales area covered Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky. Mr. Bass, who was a member of the Belmont Methodist Church, was married on Jan. 2, 1928, to Betty Ward. She survived. Other survivors are a daughter, Mrs. George H. Cate, Jr., Nashville; three sisters, Mrs. Gene Thomas, Mrs. Frank Phillips and Miss Lanna Bass, all of Lebanon and three grandchildren, Carolyn Bass Cate, Catherine Cowherd Cate and Emily Ward Cate.
  Person ID	I36861	1A William Bassett of Plymouth
  Last Modified	11 Jul 2024

  
  

  Father	Wingate Herschel Bass,   b. 9 Aug 1867, DeKalb County, Tennessee d. 29 May 1950, Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Carrie Corley,   b. 21 Mar 1872, DeKalb County, Tennessee d. 4 May 1948, Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F13037	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1
  Children	1. Living
  Family ID	F13174	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Aug 2019

  
  

  Family 2	Betty Ward,   b. 31 Jul 1896, Tennessee d. 11 Jan 1978, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	2 Jan 1926	Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
  Children	1. Carolyn Ward Bass,   b. 4 Apr 1927, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee d. 29 Nov 1989, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee (Age 62 years)   2. Edward Ward Bass,   b. 12 Jan 1930, Tennessee d. 16 Jan 1930, Tennessee (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F13171	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Aug 2019