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- The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Virginia, Tuesday, 3 January 2006
Marybelle Byrum Bass
EDENTON - MaryBelle Byrum Bass, 81, of the 300 block of Harris Landing Road, died Jan. 1, 2006, in Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth City.
Mrs. Bass was born in Chowan County and was the daughter of the late Baker Frank and Ethel Dail Byrum. A homemaker, she was a member of Rocky Hock Baptist Church where she taught Sunday school for many years and was also active in its Anna Belle Coleman Circle.
Other than her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, Graham Pierce Bass; a son, Graham Byrum Bass; a sister, Sarah B. Casper; and brothers, Baker, Rufus, Carroll Wilbur, Edward Lee, Jarvis and Raye Byrum.
Surviving are two sons, G. Carroll Bass and wife Frances of Edenton and Robert W. "Bob" Bass and wife Mary Alice of Ayden; a sister, Lois B. Turner of Gatesville; 11 grandchildren, Neal Bass and wife Felisa, Stephen Bass, Gregory Bass, Cindy Shumate and husband Darrell, Rebecca Bass, Paula Rackley and husband Steve, Trey Bass and wife Alanna, Susan Lilly and husband Michael, Wayne Bass and wife Chastity, Shannon McLawhorn and husband Richard and Shawn Cannon and husband Chris; 10 great-grandchildren; and special sisters-in-law and brother-in-law.
A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Rocky Hock Baptist Church by the Rev. Dr. James Horton with burial to follow in the Pierce Family Cemetery. Friends may join the family from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today in Miller Funeral Home, Edenton, and all other times at the residence of her son, Carroll Bass, 244 Harris Landing Road, Edenton.
Memorial contributions may be made to Rocky Hock Baptist Church Building Fund, 113 Rocky Hock Church Road, Edenton, NC 27932.
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