Richard L. Bass 81 of Ormond Beach passed away on February 2 2012.
The Funeral Service will be held at 2:00 PM on Saturday February 11 2012 in the Chapel of Lohman Funeral Home Ormond. A visitation will be held from 1:00-2:00 PM prior to the service on Saturday at the Funeral Home. Interment will follow the Service in Volusia Memorial Park Ormond Beach.

Richard Bass was born on September 1 1930 in Savannah GA to Raymond and Violet Bass. In 1931 they moved to Lake Monroe from his birthplace. He graduated from Seminole High School in Sanford FL where he excelled in sports and was offered 17 scholarships from around the country. Bobby Dodd the Head football coach for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets a perennial national championship contender at the time thought that Richard could be the player to assume all kicking duties for his team. In his senior year at Seminole Richard was awarded the Peter Schaal Trophy which is an honor given to the squad's most outstanding player.
The Peter Schaal Trophy is the most consecutively presented award of it's type in the country dating back 5 years prior to even the Heisman.
Instead of accepting any college scholarship he chose to work alongside his father and uncle and a short time later his brothers in the family business "Bass & Swaggerty" with Richard acting as President he and his brothers enjoyed much success as a wholesale distributing company in Volusia County.

He was a veteran of the US Army serving during the Korean Conflict.

Richard was a member of the Quarterback Club and the Florida Gator Booster Club as he was an avid Florida Gator Fan.

He was also instrumental in Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's move to Daytona Beach from Miami in April of 1965. Known then as Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute a group of Volusia County Civic leaders known as the committee of 100 packed the entire school into trucks and completed the move nearly overnight. The mission was named "Operation Bootstrap".

Survivors include his beloved wife of 61 years whom he married on June 11 1950 Joyce; two sons Barry of Jacksonville FL and Kyle of Ormond Beach FL; two daughters Sylvia Bass of Ormond Beach FL and Sandra Hickling of Edgewater FL; brother Gene Bass of Ormond Beach FL; and two granddaughters Samantha Bass of Jacksonville FL and Dana Jo Hickling of Edgewater FL.
He was preceded in death by his brother Dennis Bass of Port Orange.

Memorial Donations may be made in her memory to The Diabetes Association

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