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Classmate Richard A. Bass, 75 passed away on Sunday, November 18, 2018 in Topeka. A public Visitation will be held on Friday November 30, 2018 at 10:00 am with funeral services following at 11:00 am. All services will be held at Peaceful Rest Funeral Chapel: 401 SW Harrison St, Topeka. Surviving Richard is wife, Carliese Bass of Topeka. Please visit Richard’s cerebration page at www.PeascefulRestFuneralChapel.com. www.PeacefulRestFuneralChapel.com
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Robert W. Farnsworth
Richard was the first black student in my Randolph classroom following Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. It was Mr Spears’s 4th grade classroom. I doubt that 4th graders cared much, but perhaps being overly cautious, I remember Mr Spear saying “Tomorrow we will have a black pupil joining us ; I expect each of you to treat him as you would other classmates.” That is all I recall of him personally but I have carried his memory as I marched in Alabama in 1965 and to the present struggles.
I hope he had a good life