Extracted from The Southern Herald (Liberty, MS)
Thursday, June 15, 1989

LAST RITES FOR ELSIE RAY BASS

Funeral services were held 3 p.m. in Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Amite County for Elsie Ray Bass, 74, a resident of Gloster. Rev. Woody Rymes officiated.

Mrs. Bass died Saturday, June 10, 1989 in Jefferson Davis Memorial Hospital in Natchez. She was born July 27, 1914, in Amite County, the daughter of Robert Marshall Jackson and Edna Lusk Jackson.

Mrs. Bass was preceded in death by her husband, Tom Albert Bass; four brothers: A. B. Jackson, Ardell Jackson, Clayton Jackson and Lamar Jackson; and one sister, Alice Welch.

Survivors include four sons: Tommy Ray Bass and Hansel Bass, both of Gloster, Jimmie Bass and Roger Bass, both of Liberty; one daughter, Olivia Tarver, Baton Rouge, La.; 11 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; three sisters: Vada Arnold and Lola Toney, both of Gloster, and Carnette Freeman of Liberty.

Burial was in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.