Billy Bass

Mr. Billy J. Bass, 79, of Blakely, GA and formerly of Bainbridge, passed away Saturday, December 8, 2007 at Southeast Alabama Medical Center in Dothan, AL. The funeral service will be at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, December 13, 2007 at Ivey Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Slade Speir officiating. Interment will follow at Roselawn Memory Gardens with David Williams, Cameron Nunley, Joseph Nunley, William Friend, Hank Williams and Jim Nunley serving as active pallbearers. The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 12, 2007 at Ivey Funeral Home. Online visitors may sign the guest register at www.iveyfuneral.com . Mr. Bass was born October 30, 1928 in Grimes, AL to the now late William Lloyd Bass and Audie Mae Howell Bass. He was a truck driver for McKenzie Tank Lines and served in the United States Army during World War II. Mr. Bass was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his wife, Myrtle Ruth Aycock Bass and his brother, Earl Bass. Survivors include his niece, Kimla Nunley of Jakin, GA; his brother, Tommy Bass of Bainbridge, GA; and three sisters, Josephine Knight of Bainbridge, GA, Sylvia Stephens of Fowlstown, GA and Earline Yonas of Lakeland, FL.