Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Thursday, March 17, 1960

BASLER, MRS. IDA

Died at 3:23 a.m. Wednesday, March 16 at her residence, 3002 East Mason St., Apartment No. 2. She was 84. A native of Gloster, Miss., she lived in Clayton most of her life. Services at Young's Funeral Home in Ferriday at 2 p.m. Thursday. Interment in the Sicily Island Cemetery.

Survived by a son, Dewey Crum, Baton Rouge; daughter, Mrs. Maude Martin, Baton Rouge; nine grandchildren, and 31 great-grandchildren.