Abraham Joseph Bassett, Sr., age 63, residence 2015 Tremont-Rd. Monday, April 28, 1949, passed away at home.

Beloved husband of Rahija and father of Misses Gladys, Selma and Wadad, Abraham Joseph Bassett, Jr., Mrs. William Allen Scott (Lorraine); a daughter, Mrs. John W. Rutherdale, Jr., (Alice) of California; mother, Mrs. Joseph Bassett; 1 brother, Sam “Bassett, both of Blissfield, Mich.; 1 brother Frank of Detroit; 1 sister, Mrs. M. H. Bassett (Hicebee) of Napoleon, Ohio, 2 grandchildren all of California

Proprietor of Towne Tavern, 31 W Long St. Member of Upper Arlington Civic Association, Columbus Chamber of Commerce, Beni-Kedem Shrine, Charleston, W. Va., the O’Brien of Williamson, W. Va. Where he was a food merchant for 26 years.

Friends received at the residence after 6 p.m. Tuesday, Funeral service Thursday, 2:30 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church. Rev. Robert W. Fay officiating. Interment in charge of John Quint & Sons Funeral Home. Family requests the omission of flowers.
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(Williamson, W.Va. papers)

Rahija Bassett wrote in her diary on the occasion the death of her husband.
March 28, 1949

My dear husband Ibrahim,
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He became sick at 12 o’clock Sunday morning in great distress, and after an hour he was seized by paralysis and was unable to speak at all. We and the doctor were at his side the whole time, while he was in bed in our room at home. After three o’clock he was no longer aware of anything, and he expired at four-thirty in the afternoon.

Sunday and Monday, he stayed in the house, and a lot of flowers came, and telephone calls, and letters, and there were a lot of people—Americans and Syrians. His services were dignified, and the day of the burial was sunny.

God rest your soul my darling Ibrahim, you who loved so much your wife Rahija, and your children, and your family, and God, and the world.