Louie BASS

BASS, LUNDQUIST, ROBINS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/25/2006 at 11:49:33

Funeral for Louie Bass, former Newport [WA] Mayor, will be today at 11 a.m. at Sherman-Knapp Funeral Home in Newport. Graveside service with military honors will follow at Newport Cemetery. Mr. Bass, who was instrumental in getting the current Newport Fire Station built and obtaining trucks for the department, died Monday. He was 97. He was born in Eagle Grove, Iowa, and was raised on a farm in Worley, Idaho. He graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1922. In the 1920s he worked as a mining engineer, spending several years in South America. Mr. Bass served with the Army during World War I and the Naval Reserves during World War II. He moved to Newport in 1962 from Spokane and owned the Northern Hotel. He later was a real estate agent and joined North County Realty when it opened. He also worked at the state welfare office for five years and retired at age 70. Mr. Bass was an active member of the Kiwanis and was involved in the organization's curling tournaments in British Columbia. He was also a member of the Masons where he received a plaque noting his 74 years of service to Free Masonry and the Newport Masonic Lodge. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Pend Orielle County Historical Society and was past president of the Newport/Oldtown Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Bass held the position of County School Superintendent in Plummer, Idaho, and in 1974 became the Newport city mayor. He retired in 1981. His wife of 40 years, Mary (Robins) Bass, died in 1981. He is survived by a daughter, Sue Lundquist of Seattle.

Spokesman-Review, The (Spokane, WA)
June 18, 1998