Extracted from The Birmingham News (Birmingham, AL)
Monday, February 2, 1970

MRS. IRENE BASS, 74, Birmingham Rt. 1, who died Sunday, lived in Birmingham 35 years. She was a native of Bibb County.

Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Elmwood Chapel with burial in Elmwood.

Survivors are two sons, Charles D. Bass and Mark W. Bass, Birmingham; three daughters, Mrs. Jewel Stevenson, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mrs. W. Jack Cleere, Hattiesburg, Miss., and Mrs. Richard B. Voodre, Birmingham, and a sister, Mrs. Jake Deason, Birmingham.