Roy Bass - Revision history

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 Anita Bass was vice president of the founding board of the South Plains Food Bank. She was cited for her long-term dedication to community service as the recipient of the George Mahon Award, named for former [[U.S. Representative]] George Herman Mahon (1900-1985) and given by the group, Women in Communications. She was also active with the American Cancer Society, Lubbock Arts Festival, and Muscular Dystrophy Association.<ref name=abass/>
-[[Image:Roy Bass plaque.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Plaque honoring Roy Bass at the Texas Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock]]
+[[Image:Roy Bass plaque.jpg|400px|right|thumb|Plaque honoring Roy Bass at the Texas Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock]]
 In 2008, Roy Bass was listed among the "100 Most Influential People" from Lubbock, as part of the city centennial observation.<ref name=influentialpeople/>

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	Anita Bass was vice president of the founding board of the South Plains Food Bank. She was cited for her long-term dedication to community service as the recipient of the George Mahon Award, named for former [[U.S. Representative]] George Herman Mahon (1900-1985) and given by the group, Women in Communications. She was also active with the American Cancer Society, Lubbock Arts Festival, and Muscular Dystrophy Association.<ref name=abass/>		Anita Bass was vice president of the founding board of the South Plains Food Bank. She was cited for her long-term dedication to community service as the recipient of the George Mahon Award, named for former [[U.S. Representative]] George Herman Mahon (1900-1985) and given by the group, Women in Communications. She was also active with the American Cancer Society, Lubbock Arts Festival, and Muscular Dystrophy Association.<ref name=abass/>
		+	[[Image:Roy Bass plaque.jpg\|250px\|right\|thumb\|Plaque honoring Roy Bass at the Texas Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock]]

	In 2008, Roy Bass was listed among the "100 Most Influential People" from Lubbock, as part of the city centennial observation.<ref name=influentialpeople/>		In 2008, Roy Bass was listed among the "100 Most Influential People" from Lubbock, as part of the city centennial observation.<ref name=influentialpeople/>

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 Ivan and Carrie Byrn Bass}}
-'''Roy Byrn Bass, Sr.''' (October 31, 1918 &ndash; December 16, 1978), was an [[attorney]] with the firm Bass and Hobbs<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/463/463.F2d.716.71-1732.html|title=First National Bank at Lubbock v. United States of America|date=1972|publisher=ftp.resource.org|accessdate=January 5, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref> who served from 1974 until 1978 as the [[mayor]] of [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.lubbock.tx.us/council/CityCouncilHistory.aspx|title=Lubbock City Council History|publisher=ci.lubbock.tx.us|accessdate=January 5, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref> In 2008, prior to the 100th anniversary of the founding of Lubbock observed in 2009, Bass was named one of the "100 Most Influential Persons" in the city's history.<ref name=influentialpeople>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/stories/030908/loc_255257382.shtml|title="The City's Most Influential People"|date= March 9, 2008|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|accessdate=January 5, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref>
+'''Roy Byrn Bass, Sr.''' (October 31, 1918 &ndash; December 16, 1978), was an [[attorney]] with the firm Bass and Hobbs<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/463/463.F2d.716.71-1732.html|title=First National Bank at Lubbock v. United States of America|date=1972|publisher=ftp.resource.org|accessdate=January 5, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref> who served from 1974 until 1978 as the [[mayor]] of [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.lubbock.tx.us/council/CityCouncilHistory.aspx|title=Lubbock City Council History|publisher=ci.lubbock.tx.us|accessdate=January 5, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref> In 2008, prior to the 100th anniversary of the founding of Lubbock, observed in 2009, Bass was named one of the "100 Most Influential Persons" in the city's history.<ref name=influentialpeople>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/stories/030908/loc_255257382.shtml|title="The City's Most Influential People"|date= March 9, 2008|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|accessdate=January 5, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref>
 ==Background==

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 Though Bass was a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], the offices of mayor and city council are nonpartisan in all Texas municipalities. Bass met in Lubbock with [[U.S. President]] [[Gerald Ford]], on the day before<ref name=ford>{{cite web|url=http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/diary/pdd760430.pdf|title=The Daily Diary of President Gerald R. Ford, April 30, 1976|publisher=ford.utexas.edu|accessdate=January 5, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref> Ford lost his fight to challenger [[Ronald W. Reagan]] of [[California]] for all delegates at stake in the Texas [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[primary]] election held on May that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914158,00.html|title=Republicans: Reagan's Startling Texas Landslide|publisher=''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''|date=May 10, 1976|accessdate=November 18, 2019}}</ref> The Ford diary does not indicate that Bass crossed party lines to endorse Ford but relates merely that he, along with [[radio]] broadcaster [[Clint Formby]] of Plainview in Hale County, greeted the President.<ref name=ford/>
-George Kennett Hobbs (1929–2010), a native of Ardmore in southeastern [[Oklahoma]], was Bass's law partner and mayoral campaign manager. Hobbs left Lubbock in 1987 and relocated to [[Knoxville]], [[Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/obituaries/2010-12-01/kennett-hobbs|title=Kennett Hobbs obituary|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=December 1, 2010|accessdate=January 5, 2011}}</ref>
+George Kennett Hobbs (1929–2010), a native of Ardmore in southeastern [[Oklahoma]], was Bass's law partner and mayoral campaign manager. Hobbs left Lubbock in 1987 and relocated to [[Knoxville]], [[Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lubbockonline.com/obituaries/2010-12-01/kennett-hobbs|title=Kennett Hobbs obituary|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=December 1, 2010|accessdate=November 9, 2019}}</ref>
 Former Mayor David Langston recalls that the Basses were "leaders in the effort to improve racial relations within our community. They were for people and businesses who went the extra mile trying to promote diversity in employment and improving and reducing racial discrimination." The Roy B. Bass Human Relations Award is named in his honor.<ref name=abass>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/stories/022801/loc_022801039.shtml|title=Anita Bass, prolific champion of civic causes, dies at 81|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=February 28, 2001|accessdate=January 3, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref>

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 George Kennett Hobbs (1929–2010), a native of Ardmore in southeastern [[Oklahoma]], was Bass's law partner and mayoral campaign manager. Hobbs left Lubbock in 1987 and relocated to [[Knoxville]], [[Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/obituaries/2010-12-01/kennett-hobbs|title=Kennett Hobbs obituary|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=December 1, 2010|accessdate=January 5, 2011}}</ref>
-Former Mayor David Langston recalls that the Basses were "leaders in the effort to improve racial relations within our community. They were for people and businesses who went the extra mile trying to promote diversity in employment and improving and reducing racial discrimination." The Roy B. Bass Human Relations Award is named in his honor.<ref name=abass>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/stories/022801/loc_022801039.shtml|title=Anita Bass, prolific champion of civic causes, dies at 81|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=February 28, 2001|accessdate=January 3, 2011}}</ref>
+Former Mayor David Langston recalls that the Basses were "leaders in the effort to improve racial relations within our community. They were for people and businesses who went the extra mile trying to promote diversity in employment and improving and reducing racial discrimination." The Roy B. Bass Human Relations Award is named in his honor.<ref name=abass>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/stories/022801/loc_022801039.shtml|title=Anita Bass, prolific champion of civic causes, dies at 81|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=February 28, 2001|accessdate=January 3, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref>
 The Roy Bass Memorial Award is presented by the Southwest Lubbock Rotary International.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcbd.com/global/Story.asp?s=4726948|title=David A. Miller|publisher=kcbd.com|accessdate=January 5, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref>

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 Former Mayor David Langston recalls that the Basses were "leaders in the effort to improve racial relations within our community. They were for people and businesses who went the extra mile trying to promote diversity in employment and improving and reducing racial discrimination." The Roy B. Bass Human Relations Award is named in his honor.<ref name=abass>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/stories/022801/loc_022801039.shtml|title=Anita Bass, prolific champion of civic causes, dies at 81|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=February 28, 2001|accessdate=January 3, 2011}}</ref>
-The Roy Bass Memorial Award is presented by the Southwest Lubbock Rotary International.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcbd.com/global/Story.asp?s=4726948|title=David A. Miller|publisher=kcbd.com|accessdate=January 5, 2011}}</ref>
+The Roy Bass Memorial Award is presented by the Southwest Lubbock Rotary International.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcbd.com/global/Story.asp?s=4726948|title=David A. Miller|publisher=kcbd.com|accessdate=January 5, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref>
 ==Death and legacy==

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 ==Political life==
-Though Bass was a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], the offices of mayor and city council are nonpartisan in all Texas municipalities. Bass met in Lubbock with [[U.S. President]] [[Gerald Ford]], on the day before<ref name=ford>{{cite web|url=http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/diary/pdd760430.pdf|title=The Daily Diary of President Gerald R. Ford, April 30, 1976|publisher=ford.utexas.edu|accessdate=January 5, 2011}}</ref> Ford lost his fight to challenger [[Ronald W. Reagan]] of [[California]] for all delegates at stake in the Texas [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[primary]] election held on May that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914158,00.html|title=Republicans: Reagan's Startling Texas Landslide|publisher=''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''|date=May 10, 1976|accessdate=November 18, 2019}}</ref> The Ford diary does not indicate that Bass crossed party lines to endorse Ford but relates merely that he, along with [[radio]] broadcaster [[Clint Formby]] of Plainview in Hale County, greeted the President.<ref name=ford/>
+Though Bass was a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], the offices of mayor and city council are nonpartisan in all Texas municipalities. Bass met in Lubbock with [[U.S. President]] [[Gerald Ford]], on the day before<ref name=ford>{{cite web|url=http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/diary/pdd760430.pdf|title=The Daily Diary of President Gerald R. Ford, April 30, 1976|publisher=ford.utexas.edu|accessdate=January 5, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref> Ford lost his fight to challenger [[Ronald W. Reagan]] of [[California]] for all delegates at stake in the Texas [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[primary]] election held on May that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914158,00.html|title=Republicans: Reagan's Startling Texas Landslide|publisher=''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''|date=May 10, 1976|accessdate=November 18, 2019}}</ref> The Ford diary does not indicate that Bass crossed party lines to endorse Ford but relates merely that he, along with [[radio]] broadcaster [[Clint Formby]] of Plainview in Hale County, greeted the President.<ref name=ford/>
 George Kennett Hobbs (1929–2010), a native of Ardmore in southeastern [[Oklahoma]], was Bass's law partner and mayoral campaign manager. Hobbs left Lubbock in 1987 and relocated to [[Knoxville]], [[Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/obituaries/2010-12-01/kennett-hobbs|title=Kennett Hobbs obituary|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=December 1, 2010|accessdate=January 5, 2011}}</ref>

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 Bass and his wife, the former Anita Seay (May 3, 1919 &ndash; February 27, 2001), a native of Briscoe County, Texas, married in 1942 in [[Memphis]], [[Tennessee]]. After his death, Mrs. Bass maintained the family's involvement in Lubbock civic and community affairs. Bass died of an apparent [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] after working out with a son at the Lubbock [[Young Men's Christian Association]] gymnasium.<ref name=baptpress/> Some six months earlier, he had completed his second two-year term as mayor. Mrs. Bass died twenty-two years later of [[Parkinson's disease]].<ref name=abass/>
-The Basses had three sons, Roy Byrn Bass, Jr. (born 1947), also a Lubbock attorney,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pview.findlaw.com/view/1929871_1|title=Bass, Roy Byrne, Jr.|publisher=pview.findlaw.com|accessdate=January 5, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref> David Dewey Bass (born 1949) of [[Tampa]], [[Florida]], and Mark Ivan Bass (born 1951), a Lubbock financial planner,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parentcaresolution.com/blog.asp?cat_id=34&id=99|title=What Wall Street, Boomers, and Parents could learn from Mark Bass|date=November 9, 2007|publisher=parentcareresolution.com|accessdate=January 6, 2011}}</ref> and five grandchildren. The couple is interred at Resthaven Memorial Park in Lubbock. The Basses were charter members of the Second [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church of Lubbock. Mrs. Bass was one of the first women to sit on the executive committee of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]]. She also was a founding member of Second Baptist Church and was one of the first female deacons in the convention.<ref name=abass/> Bass himself was also a Second Baptist deacon.<ref name=baptpress/>
+The Basses had three sons, Roy Byrn Bass, Jr. (born 1947), also a Lubbock attorney,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pview.findlaw.com/view/1929871_1|title=Bass, Jr., Roy Byrne|publisher=pview.findlaw.com|accessdate=November 18, 2019}}</ref> David Dewey Bass (born 1949) of [[Tampa]], [[Florida]], and Mark Ivan Bass (born 1951), a Lubbock financial planner,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parentcaresolution.com/blog.asp?cat_id=34&id=99|title=What Wall Street, Boomers, and Parents could learn from Mark Bass|date=November 9, 2007|publisher=parentcareresolution.com|accessdate=January 6, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref> and five grandchildren. The couple is interred at Resthaven Memorial Park in Lubbock. The Basses were charter members of the Second [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church of Lubbock. Mrs. Bass was one of the first women to sit on the executive committee of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]]. She also was a founding member of Second Baptist Church and was one of the first female deacons in the convention.<ref name=abass/> Bass himself was also a Second Baptist deacon.<ref name=baptpress/>
 Anita Bass was vice president of the founding board of the South Plains Food Bank. She was cited for her long-term dedication to community service as the recipient of the George Mahon Award, named for former [[U.S. Representative]] George Herman Mahon (1900-1985) and given by the group, Women in Communications. She was also active with the American Cancer Society, Lubbock Arts Festival, and Muscular Dystrophy Association.<ref name=abass/>