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| Bass, Vera Mae 150699 |
| Birth: 05/23/1942 Death: 02/09/1959 Marriage: |
| Cemetery: Reeds Chapel B (SOUTH) |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/17/2025) |
| Notes THE PARIS NEWS, Monday, 9 Feb 1959, p. 1 & 8: "[Picture] Caption - ONE DEAD IN OVERTURNED CAR--J. T. Akins inspects the automobile that overturned northwest of Paris early Monday on FM 79 and killed one of its passengers, Vera Mae Bass, 15, who was thrown from the car. The vehicle rolled over on the teenage girl. (Paris News Staff Photo). VISIBILITY ZERO - Lamar Wrecks Kill One, Hurt Three - Fog-shrouded highways in the Paris area Sunday night dealt Lamar County its second traffic fatality of the year, and left three injured. A 15-year-old Paris Negro girl, Vera Mae Bass, was killed in a one-car accident on Farm-to-Market Road 79, northwest of Paris, early Monday morning. The car in which she was riding skidded off the highway and overturned. The driver, Rudolph King, was slightly injured. . . (article continues about a different wreck) . . . The girl was killed when the car in which she was riding left the road at a curve 2.3 miles northeast [sic] of Paris and overturned. She was apparently thrown from the car and crushed as the car rolled over on her. Justice of the Peace Gilbert Streety pronounced the girl dead at the scene due to an automobile accident. King, the driver, escaped with slight injuries. Two other occupants of the car, Ernest Lee Moore and Patsy Dangerfield were not hurt. According to Highway Patrolman James Wray, the fog was dense and the driver apparently did not see the curve. The car, a 1953 Ford, was termed a total loss. Vera Mae Bass, 15, who made her home with her mother, Mrs. Rosa Lee Bass, 515 Woodlawn Avenue, was born in Paris, her father being Bufers Bass, also of Paris. Besides her mother and father, she leaves one child, Kerry DeWayne Easley; a brother and three sisters, Earl Bass, and Mrs. Mary Alice Burton, Paris; Mrs. Evelyn Berry, Los Angeles, Calif., And Miss Corine Marie Bass, Fort Worth, and three grandparents, Mrs. Cora Bass, and Mr. And Mrs. Marion Young, all of Powderly. Ferguson Funeral Home is making burial arrangements, which were incomplete Monday evening." From materials donated to the genealogical library in 1995 by Thelma Jean Day: "Burial of Vera Mae Bass, 15-year-old Negro girl killed Feb. 9, in an automobile wreck, will be made in Reed [sic] Chapel Cemetery, after service at Mount Pisgah Baptist Church here at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. The Rev. R.L. Gray will officiate, and Ferguson Funeral Home will make interment." Metal marker near Marion Young Sr. |
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