Extracted from The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
BASS, LILAC M.
Died Sunday, June 19, 1988, at Jefferson Davis Memorial Hospital, Natchez, Miss. She was 75, a native and resident of Jonesville. She was an employee of the Jonesville Nursing Home for 12 years.
Religious services at Lake Lillie Baptist Church, near Jonesville, 10 a.m. Tuesday, conducted by the Rev. Frank Bass and the Rev. Bryan Taylor. Burial in Heard Cemetery, Manifest.
Survived by husband, Boudrow Bass Sr., Jonesville; three sons, Charles Bass Sr., Waco, Texas, Dale Bass and Mark Bass, both of Jonesville; five daughters, Peggy Stone, Baton Rouge, Bobbie Calhoun, Monterey, Georgia Netherland, Olathe, Kan., Dimple Cooper and Shelia Clark, both of Jonesville; a brother, Wince Morris Jr., Jonesville; eight sisters, Lucy Smith, Bonnie Mophett, Marie Smith, Biela Neal and Bernice Wheeler, all of Jonesville, Rose Jones and Betty Bradshaw, both of Houston, Texas, and Marjorie Perchier, Lake Charles; 23 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.
Preceded in death by a son, Boudrow Bass Jr.
Pallbearers will be Jess Calhoun, Patrick Calhoun, Lank Bass, Leslie Netherland, Gary Stone, Don Stone, John R. Bass and Charles E. Bass Jr.
She was a charter member of Lake Lillie Baptist Church and member of Homemakers Club.
Tuesday, June 21, 1988