Thelma Inez Bass

Notes:

Sabine County Reporter 8 May 2002

Class of 1948 Members of the class of 1948 attending the (Hemphill High School) reunion included, from left, front; Joann (Hendrix) Alford, Bennie Jean (Chambers) Henderson and Thelma (Bass) Henderson; and back: Elaine (Erwin) Hamilton, Jackie Harris, Merle (Gellatly) Huff, Billie Sue (Ziefler) Chambers, Raymond Mattox and Kathleen (Crowell) Zachery.

Obituary
From Starr Funeral Home Website

Thelma Inez Bass Henderson, 83, of Hemphill, died Friday morning in the Sabine County Hospital in Hemphill. Thelma was born in Hemphill to William Burtis and Sallie Erwin Bass and has lived in Hemphill all her life. Mrs. Henderson owned and operated a book keeping and tax service for forty-seven years in Hemphill. She attended the Pine Park United Pentecostal Church.

She is survived by her daughter Sherri Eddings and her husband Don of Hemphill, her grandchildren; Devin Eddings of San Antonio and Danielle Eddings of Hemphill, and her brother Norman Bass and his wife Billie Sue of Hemphill. She was preceded in death by her parents, her sister Margaret Louise Bass and her husband Delbert Henderson.

Visitation will be from 5:00PM until 9:00PM, Saturday, January 18, 2014, in the Starr Funeral Home, 510 Starr St., Hemphill, Texas. Funeral services will be at 2:00PM, Sunday, January 19, 2014, in the Starr Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in the Springhill Cemetery.

Also published in The Sabine County Reporter, January 22, 2014, Page 13

Family/Spouse: James Delbert Henderson. James was born on 26 Apr 1938 in Jasper County, Texas; died on 3 Apr 1996 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living

Notes:

Kay Parker McCary's Spring Hill Cemetery transcription instead shows his DOB as 1 Jan 1901.

(Research):Census Listings:

1930 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 4
Enumerated 23 Apr 1930
ED 202-6 SD 19 Sheet 8A Stamped 79
159-173
Bass, William B. Head M W 26 M 18 La La La Farmer Cotton Fa
rmer
Bass, Sallie Wf F W 24 M 16 Tx Tx Tx
Bass, Norman M W 4 S Tx La Tx
Bass, Thelma I Dtr F W 1/12 S Tx La Tx

William married Sarah "Sallie" Erwin on 14 Mar 1921. Sarah (daughter of Samuel Erwin and Susan Emmeline Armstrong) was born on 25 Jun 1907 in Texas; died on 6 Jul 2001 in Texas; was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Susan Emmeline Armstrong on 4 Mar 1906. Susan was born on 12 Feb 1891 in Texas; died on 17 Mar 1988 in Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

White & Toole, "Sabine County Historical Sketches and Genealogical Records" c. 1972, show that she married second David B. SPRINGER, and that they were the parents of Rebie and William Bennett Springer.