Gracie Bass Hargus, went home to be with her Lord on September 12, 2011, at the age of 70. She was born in Strafford, Mo., to Alpha and Elva Rowe. She attended Liberty and Fair Grove schools. She received the Lord as her Savior at an early age and was a faithful member and loyal pastor’s wife at Bible Baptist Church, where she and her husband Larry served together for 10 years. She was preceded in death by her first husband Frankie Bass; her parents Alpha and Elva Rowe; her son, Michael Bass; her brother, James Rowe; and her sister, Alice Goodman.
Gracie was married to Frankie Bass in 1958 and shared 41 memorable years together, before Frankie’s death in 1999. To this union were born two sons, Michael and Darrell Bass and two daughters, Rebecca Kershner and Lynn Whitehead.
Gracie was blessed to have shared her last 12 years of her life with her beloved husband Larry Hargus, who was a loyal husband and care-taker up to the time she went home to be with her Lord. She is survived by her husband Larry; her son Darrell Bass; two daughters, Rebecca Kershner and husband Dean and Lynn Whitehead and husband Randy. She is also survived by 4 step-children, which she treated as her own: Randy Hargus and wife Tina, Twyla Cobb and husband David, Terri Todd and husband Kenny, Tabitha Jackson and husband Steven; and her beloved dog, Chester. She is also survived by six grandchildren: Kiley Whitehead, Jamie Bass, Joshua Bass and wife Donna, Sean Nix, Lora Kershner, Jana Simpson, and husband Daniel; and 8 step-grandchildren: Tyler, Dylan and Brianna Cobb, Amanda McKrickard and husband Dustin, Craig Hargus and wife Brittany, Dustin Hargus, Terra and Wade Todd, and Kruz and Kadell Jackson and many great-grandchildren.
She is a great loss to those loved ones left behind, but a great gain to those in Heaven.
Funeral services will be Friday morning at 10:00 a.m. in Greenlawn Funeral Home North, with Rev. Don Baier officiating. Burial will follow in Bass Chapel Cemetery. Visitation will be Thursday evening from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations to Hospice, who provided great help during Gracie’s illness, with a “special thanks” to Katherine Dent, Lynn Niles, Lorena Maggard and Ron Horner.