Son of George W and Julia Weller Basore, he was a retired mechanical engineer, a graducate of the Class of 1921 of the University of Arkansas where he played football and was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraaternity, a veteran of WWI and a Presbyterian.

Survivors are one daughter: Mrs Julia Harmon

Two sisters:
Mrs Kathleen B Cclark
Agnes B Perry

Step-mother:
Mrs George W Basore

Two grandchildren


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Desert Sun, Palm Springs, CA Sept 6, 1971

Ozark Family Wiped Out In Mass Murder

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (UPI)—A University of Arkansas coed Sunday said a mass murder and suicide during a reunion of an Ozark Mountain family unfolded like a pantom-ime-unreal at first, then terrifyingly close. Kris Anderson, 20, darkhaired and green-eyed, saw two persons shot down. Then she crouched with another woman in a cellar, pulling at the rusty door to keep it latched against the prowling murderer. The family of Mr. and Mrs. George Basore gathered Saturday at the Basores’ isolated farm in the Ozark Mountains of northwestern Arkansas, near the community of Mount Olive. Food had been spread on the table for the evening meal for relatives who had not seen one another for months talked. “It was a real nice Saturday afternoon. Everyone was just kind of sitting around,” Miss Anderson said. She was sitting on the porch swing with her date, Chris Basore.

A car came up the hill and turned into the driveway. A woman got out. She was “very calm, cool and collected. She was dressed up like she was going to a party or something.” “Chris said it was his mother who just drove up. I thought ‘well, I guess I’ll get to meet her,’” Miss Anderson said. Chris’ father and mother, Mrs. Elinore Basore, 45, of El Paso, Tex., had been separated for one year. “Chris’ grandmother came out to meet her. She (the woman) just walked up with a gun and shot her, Chris yelled, ‘mother,’ and walked over to his grandmother's body. And she shot him.” The grandmother, Mrs. George Basore, was killed. Chris was wounded critically. “It just didn’t look real. I thought I'd better just sit down and be quiet. She walked past me and went into the house. I heard a few shots,” Miss Anderson said.

Then Miss Anderson walked into the house, quietly, a few minutes after the second volley of shots were fired. “People were yelling. I figured this was for real. I left and went around to the side of the house. I found Chris’ aunt. Mrs. Obie Harmon, and she, was getting a little bit hysterical.” The two women found a storm cellar and hid there for 15 to 20 minutes. “The cellar door wouldn't stay closed and I had to hold it shut from the I outside ’cause she was looking for people.” Miss Anderson said the woman walked around and around the house, “She was calling for the people that she knew were supposed to be there," Miss Anderson said.

The three other survivors slipped out the back door as the woman came in the front door. They dashed to a farmhouse about a half a mile away and called police. When police arrived they found six persons shot—only one—Chris—still alive. “There was quite a bit of blood,” said Arkansas State Trooper Quimby Johnson, one of the first to investigate the killings.

Sheriff Bill Long of Washington County said the woman used a 9-millimeter automatic pistol. An official ruling on the deaths was pending. Dead were George Basore Sr., 71, his wife Wilma, 70; George Basore Jr., 49, of Fayetteville, and Obie Harmon, 49, of Oklahoma City, the Basores’ son-in-law. The body of Elinore Basore lay on the front porch steps where she had shot herself. Relatives of the family Sunday would not discuss the deaths. “It’s too soon,” one said. “I have to make funeral arrangements for my family.”

Son of George W and Julia Weller Basore, he was a retired mechanical engineer, a graducate of the Class of 1921 of the University of Arkansas where he played football and was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraaternity, a veteran of WWI and a Presbyterian.

Survivors are one daughter: Mrs Julia Harmon

Two sisters:
Mrs Kathleen B Cclark
Agnes B Perry

Step-mother:
Mrs George W Basore

Two grandchildren


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Desert Sun, Palm Springs, CA Sept 6, 1971

Ozark Family Wiped Out In Mass Murder

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (UPI)—A University of Arkansas coed Sunday said a mass murder and suicide during a reunion of an Ozark Mountain family unfolded like a pantom-ime-unreal at first, then terrifyingly close. Kris Anderson, 20, darkhaired and green-eyed, saw two persons shot down. Then she crouched with another woman in a cellar, pulling at the rusty door to keep it latched against the prowling murderer. The family of Mr. and Mrs. George Basore gathered Saturday at the Basores’ isolated farm in the Ozark Mountains of northwestern Arkansas, near the community of Mount Olive. Food had been spread on the table for the evening meal for relatives who had not seen one another for months talked. “It was a real nice Saturday afternoon. Everyone was just kind of sitting around,” Miss Anderson said. She was sitting on the porch swing with her date, Chris Basore.

A car came up the hill and turned into the driveway. A woman got out. She was “very calm, cool and collected. She was dressed up like she was going to a party or something.” “Chris said it was his mother who just drove up. I thought ‘well, I guess I’ll get to meet her,’” Miss Anderson said. Chris’ father and mother, Mrs. Elinore Basore, 45, of El Paso, Tex., had been separated for one year. “Chris’ grandmother came out to meet her. She (the woman) just walked up with a gun and shot her, Chris yelled, ‘mother,’ and walked over to his grandmother's body. And she shot him.” The grandmother, Mrs. George Basore, was killed. Chris was wounded critically. “It just didn’t look real. I thought I'd better just sit down and be quiet. She walked past me and went into the house. I heard a few shots,” Miss Anderson said.

Then Miss Anderson walked into the house, quietly, a few minutes after the second volley of shots were fired. “People were yelling. I figured this was for real. I left and went around to the side of the house. I found Chris’ aunt. Mrs. Obie Harmon, and she, was getting a little bit hysterical.” The two women found a storm cellar and hid there for 15 to 20 minutes. “The cellar door wouldn't stay closed and I had to hold it shut from the I outside ’cause she was looking for people.” Miss Anderson said the woman walked around and around the house, “She was calling for the people that she knew were supposed to be there," Miss Anderson said.

The three other survivors slipped out the back door as the woman came in the front door. They dashed to a farmhouse about a half a mile away and called police. When police arrived they found six persons shot—only one—Chris—still alive. “There was quite a bit of blood,” said Arkansas State Trooper Quimby Johnson, one of the first to investigate the killings.

Sheriff Bill Long of Washington County said the woman used a 9-millimeter automatic pistol. An official ruling on the deaths was pending. Dead were George Basore Sr., 71, his wife Wilma, 70; George Basore Jr., 49, of Fayetteville, and Obie Harmon, 49, of Oklahoma City, the Basores’ son-in-law. The body of Elinore Basore lay on the front porch steps where she had shot herself. Relatives of the family Sunday would not discuss the deaths. “It’s too soon,” one said. “I have to make funeral arrangements for my family.”