Elmer Bassett
| Date of Interment or Death | 06/12/1934 |
|---|---|
| Location | Old Fairview |
| Section | C |
| Block-Lot-Grave | 1-7-1 |
Obituary
E. E. Bassett Dies Here Suddenly On Sunday Morning
One of Wahpeton’s Dean of Business Men To Be Buried on Tuesday
Came to Wahpeton to Live in 1898
Proclamation Issued Closing Wahpeton Business Places During Funeral Proclamation
Inasmuch as death has removed on of Wahpeton’s pioneer business men, Elmer E. Bassett, and inasmuch as it is fitting and proper that mundane affairs should cease during the time of the funeral in respect to his more than forty years of service in the community.
Now, therefore, I, Frank Vertin, Mayor of Wahpeton do proclaim the hours from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday set aside for each tribute and request that all business places do close during the time of the funeral.
Frank Vertin Mayor of Wahpeton.
Elmer E. Bassett, one of Wahpeton’s oldest business men, passed away suddenly Sunday morning after a brief illness. Funeral services are to be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon from the Congregational church and interment will be in the Fairview cemetery here.
Mr. Bassett has engaged in the jewelry business continuously in the same location for about forty years and was ranked as one of the deans of Wahpeton Business people. He was not particularly old despite his years of service to the community and had always been a great lover of the out-of-dodes and an active healthy athletic life. He had had an attack of flu last winter and seemed to be in ill health since that time. He was taken to the hospital a week ago and succumbed to a heart attack.
He was born March 20, 1865, at Polo, Ill., and attended school thee as well as the Mount Morris Seminary school in Chicago, and engaged in business with his brother at Jacksonville, Ill., before coming to Wahpeton.
He was married July 11, 1900, to Annie Morden and they have since made their home here. He is survived by his wife and children, Raymond and Ariel, who are at home at present, but who reside at North Branch and Hibbing, Minn., respectively. He is also survived by his brothers, Fred of Glendale, Cal., and Everett, of Jacksonville, Ill., and sister Mrs. Janet Ault of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Business places are to close from 2:30 to 3:30 in Wahpeton during the hour of the funeral in respect to Mr. Bassett. He was member of Wahpeton Lodge Number 15. A. F. & A.M. and of the Congregational church as well as the Wahpeton Commercial club. He was well known over this section of the state as the result of his long residence here.
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Location
Old Fairview is located on the southern half of the cemetery grounds.