OBITUARY - JOHN BASSO Submitted by: Vikki, VGDriver1 at aol dot com Source: "Lewis River News," Woodland, Cowlitz Co., WA, Thursday, 23 Apr 1959 John Basso Dies in Seattle Apr. 20 Jacob Basso, a forty-year resident of Butte Hill, died in Seattle Apr. 20, and his funeral was today, Thursday, with burial at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery in Seattle. Basso was born in 1880 in Finland, coming to the United States in 1896. He returned to Finland in 1908 to marry Hannah Aura, and the couple came back to the U.S. the following year, settling on Butte Hill in 1910. They moved away in 1950. Besides his wife he is survived by a son, Helmer of Chehalis, and a daughter, Helen, of Seattle, with whom the Bassos had lived for the past few years.