Obituaries: Burney Oliver Bass, 1957, Grant &Winn Parish, LA.
From: November 21, 1957 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

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Seventh Traffic Death

B. O. Bass Dies In Collision Friday

Funeral services for Burney Oliver Bass, 60 year old former Winnfield
resident, were held here Monday at Southern Funeral Home chapel.  Mr. Bass
died Friday afternoon in a truck collision about four miles north of Dodson.

Mr. Bass was the seventh traffic fatality in Winn Parish in 1957.

The former local man was traveling alone in a pickup truck when he collided
with a loaded gravel truck driven by James P. "Pleas" Greer of Jonesboro,
formerly of Dodson.  Greer and a passenger in his truck, James Rasberry of
Jonesboro, received minor lacerations and bruises and were release after
emergency treatment at a Jonesboro hospital.

Jake Turner, colored, of Dodson, who lives a short distance from the accident
scene, told an Enterprise reporter that he was standing near the road and saw
Mr. Bass, an old acquaintance, drive along the highway.  The two waved at each
other, and Turner watched as the truck traveled down the highway several
hundred yards, and then appeared to skid off the pavement, jerk back, and
collide head on with the oncoming gravel truck.

Mr. Bass was traveling sought and the gravel truck was going north.

A crew member of a Rock Island train passing the scene at the time was also an
eye witness to the accident.

Mr. Bass was thrown through the windshield of his vehicle 46 feet from the
point of impact.  The motor and radiator were torn from the truck and hurled
54 feet.

FUNERAL MONDAY

Funeral services were held Monday at Southern Funeral Home Chapel in Winnfield
for the former Winnfield man.  Rev. Robert Gate, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, officiated with burial in Winnfield Cemetery.

Mr. Bass was born August 17, 1897 in Grant Parish.  He was a longtime resident
of Winnfield and formerly operated a blacksmith shop here.  He had been living
in Camden, Ark., for the past two years.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Violet Daniels Bass of Camden; two sons,
Haywood Bass of Mississippi City, Miss., and Stanley Bass with the U. S. Navy
in Hawaii; one daughter, Mrs. G. C. (Lesker) Bates of Winnfield; three
brothers, W. A. Bass of Winnfield, H. B. Bass of Kinder, and Elvin Bass of
Pineville; three sisters, Mrs. D. A. Gilbert of Ruston, Mrs. Barton Stone of
New London, Texas, and Mrs. J. M. Bullock of Georgetown.

Masonic funeral rites were held.