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Henry Leonidas Bass

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Henry Leonidas Bass Veteran

Birth
Adel, Cook County, Georgia, USA
Death
14 Dec 1950 (aged 56)
Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
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Rites Saturday
For Henry Bass President of Lumber Company Since 1937

Funeral Services will be held at the grave in Riverside Cemetery at 11 o’clock Saturday morning for Henry L. Bass, prominent 56-year-old Hopkinsville businessman under whose presidency Bass & Company had staged phenomenal growth.

Mr. Bass died yesterday afternoon at Jennie Stuart Hospital where he was taken on December 4 after virus pneumonia developed following a severe cold.

Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Louisa Bass; a son, Henry L. Bass, Jr. of Sewanee, Tenn.; three daughters by a former marriage, Mrs. Winstead Broadfoot of Houston, Tex., Mrs. Duane Snider of Hopkinsville, and Mrs. Burke G. Piper of Arlington, Va.; and six grandchildren, Thomas W. Broadfoot, Bonnie Broadfoot, Malcolm Covington Broadfoot, William and Rebecca Snider; and Susan Louisa Piper.

Pall bearers will be J.L. Connor, Browning Roberts, James G. Givens, W. T. Stowe, Woodrow Hunter and Joel Embry. The body will be at Keightley Funeral Home until time for the services tomorrow.

Mr. Bass was with the old Mogul Wagon Company for five years before World War I. He enlisted in the Army and rose from the rank of private to first lieutenant before being discharged.

After the war, he was with Forbes Manufacturing Company for three years as a purchasing agent, but in 1925 he helped his brother, the late Oscar Bass, organize Bass and Company. He resigned from the company to be associated in business in Memphis for more than two years, but returned to Bass & Company shortly before his brother’s death.

Henry Bass became the head of Bass & Company; in 1937 and served in that capacity until his death. The company originally dealt in retail lumber and building material and in wholesale plumbing, and between 1925 and 1937 it had established branches at Bowling Green, Cadiz, Elkton and Clarksville.

Under Henry Bass, the business became all wholesale lumber at Clarksville while the small ones at Cadiz and Elkton were closed. Branches were established in Owensboro, Paducah and Nashville as the company’s business grew tremendously.

-Kentucky New Era, December 15, 1950, page 1

Contributed by Joe Craver
Rites Saturday
For Henry Bass President of Lumber Company Since 1937

Funeral Services will be held at the grave in Riverside Cemetery at 11 o’clock Saturday morning for Henry L. Bass, prominent 56-year-old Hopkinsville businessman under whose presidency Bass & Company had staged phenomenal growth.

Mr. Bass died yesterday afternoon at Jennie Stuart Hospital where he was taken on December 4 after virus pneumonia developed following a severe cold.

Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Louisa Bass; a son, Henry L. Bass, Jr. of Sewanee, Tenn.; three daughters by a former marriage, Mrs. Winstead Broadfoot of Houston, Tex., Mrs. Duane Snider of Hopkinsville, and Mrs. Burke G. Piper of Arlington, Va.; and six grandchildren, Thomas W. Broadfoot, Bonnie Broadfoot, Malcolm Covington Broadfoot, William and Rebecca Snider; and Susan Louisa Piper.

Pall bearers will be J.L. Connor, Browning Roberts, James G. Givens, W. T. Stowe, Woodrow Hunter and Joel Embry. The body will be at Keightley Funeral Home until time for the services tomorrow.

Mr. Bass was with the old Mogul Wagon Company for five years before World War I. He enlisted in the Army and rose from the rank of private to first lieutenant before being discharged.

After the war, he was with Forbes Manufacturing Company for three years as a purchasing agent, but in 1925 he helped his brother, the late Oscar Bass, organize Bass and Company. He resigned from the company to be associated in business in Memphis for more than two years, but returned to Bass & Company shortly before his brother’s death.

Henry Bass became the head of Bass & Company; in 1937 and served in that capacity until his death. The company originally dealt in retail lumber and building material and in wholesale plumbing, and between 1925 and 1937 it had established branches at Bowling Green, Cadiz, Elkton and Clarksville.

Under Henry Bass, the business became all wholesale lumber at Clarksville while the small ones at Cadiz and Elkton were closed. Branches were established in Owensboro, Paducah and Nashville as the company’s business grew tremendously.

-Kentucky New Era, December 15, 1950, page 1

Contributed by Joe Craver


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