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This was a familiar scene during the many years of its existance. Many messages came from families many miles away, during the war years Emma would stay up half the night trying to reach a soldier in some far away carmy camp, wives, mothers or sweethearts trying to talk one more time before their soldier was sent overseas. She was still there when the happy messages came that the war was over and theywere coming home. Boys and girls courted over the telephone. Emma never listened in on the conversation but the funny part was she always knew when a wedding was to take place or who was dating who.
Obituary
Services Held Tuesday for Mrs. L.E. Bass, 62, McAdoo
A heart attack took the life of Mrs. L.E. (Emma) Bass, 62, Sunday. Stricken in her home at McAdoo about 6 p.m., she was dead on arrival at Spur Hospital at 8:10 p.m.,
Mrs. Bass, a resident of McAdoo owned telephone exchange for 12 years until they sold their business to Co-op Telephone in 1951. She continued as an operator until 1953.
Survivors include her husband; four daughters, Mrs. Mary Alice Childress, Richmond, California, Mrs. Willie Pearl Burrow, Amarillo, Mrs. Margaret Agnes Crowder, Corpus Christi, and Mrs. Florence Jones, Aztec, NM; two sons, Bradford, Plainview, and Dan, Long Beach, California; 16 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the McAdoo Methodist Church at 3 p.m. Tuesday. Rev. Henry Salley, pastor, officiated, assisted by Rev. Gene McCann, Baptist minister, and Leonard Dennis, Church of Christ minister.
Burial was in McAdoo cemetery under direction of King Funeral Home
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