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Funeral services for Harold Bassett, who died at Salina, Kansas January 2, 1954, were held her Thursday afternoon of last week. A graveside ritual was conducted by the Del Norte Masonic order. The deceased had belonged to No. 105 here for over 25 years.
He was born June 7, 1891 in Del Norte, the youngest son of Alden and Josephine Bassett, pioneers of the Del Norte community.
Mr. Bassett grew to young manhood here and was educated in the Del Norte schools. He was a power plant engineer, receiving his initial training in the old Del Norte municipal plant. In 1909 he moved to Salina, Kansas and was employed at the Salina power plant.
In 1916, he married Grace Elizabeth Genisch of Salina, and returning to Colorado, he settled in Creede where his wife died in the flu epidemic of 1918, leaving an infant son, Donald. He married Augusta Ihringer of Del Norte in 1920 and in 1923, he returned to Salina where he was again employed at the Salina power plant. At the time of his death he was plant superintendent there.
He was a member of St. John's Lutheran church, Salina, and of the Woodmen of the World lodge.
He is survived by his widow Augusta; his son, Donald; two grandsons, Herbert Harold and Robert Lee; two brothers, Loren, Compton, California and William, Denver; two sisters, Mrs. Florence Dorr, St. Cloud, Florida, and Mrs. E. Gertrude Day, Idaho Falls, Idaho.
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