CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - James L. Bass Jr., 13 Jun 2002
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James L. Bass Jr.

   LIMA, Ohio -- James L. Bass Jr., 77, died Thursday, June 13, 2002, at 
St. Rita's Medical Center, Lima.
   Mr. Bass was a native of Elizabethton, Tenn., and a son of the late 
James Sr. and Elizabeth Bass. He was also preceded in death by his wife, 
Odessa Bass, July 1, 1997; a daughter, Deborah Mae Bass; and a son, James 
Bass Jr.
   Mr. Bass was a 40-year employee of the Lima Engine Plant of Ford Motor 
Company, having retired in 1997. He was employed as a reliefman on the 
assembly line. He was a member of Mt. Olive Church of God in Christ and a 
member of the UAW.
   Mr. Bass had been a decorated World War II Army veteran, receiving four 
Bronze Stars.
   Survivors include four sons and two daughters-in-law, Darren and Penny 
Bass, Lima, James D. Bass, Elizabethton, Tenn., Dexter A. Bass, Mansfield, 
Ohio, and Terrance and Vanassa Bass, Cincinnati, Ohio; two daughters and 
sons-in-law, Diane and Laval Malachi, Colorado Springs, Colo., and Donna 
and LeTroy McFadden, Leesburg, Va.; a sister, Edna Forney, Atlanta, Ga.; 
a sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Margaret and Russel Harris, Powell, 
Tenn.; eight grandchildren, Deborah McFadden, Chavon McFadden, Darren Bass, 
Taylor Bass, Rodney Bass, Shane Coomes, Alexis Bass and Jazmne Bass; and 
one great-grandchild, Cory McFadden.
   Siferd Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
   
   BASS -- Funeral services for James L. Bass Jr., 77, who died Thursday, 
June 13, 2002, in Lima, Ohio, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Monday, June 17, 
from the Mt. Olive Church of God in Christ. Graveside services and interment 
will be at Woodlawn Cemetery. Military Rites accorded by the Lima VFW Post 
#1275. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, June 16, 
in the Siferd Westwood Funeral Home Chapel. Siferd Funeral Home, Lima, 
Ohio, is in charge of arrangements. 

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