Mark Mcmurtrey
I know all of us old-time Fayetteville kids, who grew up with both Jay and Carolyn, were sad to see of his passing. I was fortunate enough to know him not only as their dad, but we went to church together for decades and decades. Bass was sharp as a tack, and as kind and thoughtful a person as you would ever meet. He always kidded me about spiking Jay in the thigh with my track cleats on an almost-bungled handoff of the baton in a mile relay race when we were at Woodland Junior High. We would laugh about that every time I saw him, and that event occurred back in the mid-70s! I speak for all of that generation who knew the family in saying that our sincerest condolences go out to his children and grandchildren and their loved ones. He will be sorely missed, to say the least and to put it mildly. God bless you Jay and Carolyn, you dad was one of a kind and we all had the deepest respect, admiration, and love for him.
