Beth Bassett

Reidsville: Beth Bassett, 45, of 141 Grady Rd., passed away on Tuesday, December 27, 2016, at Rockingham County Hospice Home. A funeral service will be held at 3:00 P.M., Saturday December 31, 2016, at Lively Stones Baptist Church with Rev. Michael Kent officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Beth was born on July 26, 1971, in Columbus, OH, to Kenneth Michael Murphy and Mary Thissen Murphy. She served in the Fire Service for 21 years in Wyoming, Ohio and North Carolina. She worked as an EMT with the Rockingham County EMS. She also worked for the Annie Penn Emergency Department and for Eden Fire. She was a passionate Harley rider since childhood with her father. Beth was a faithful member of Lively Stones Baptist Church and a member of New Directions. She loved to help people. She was a very loving wife, mother and grandmother. Beth was preceded in death by her father, Kenneth Murphy and two brothers, Michael McCord and Shawn Murphy. Survivors include her husband, John Bassett a.k.a. Beth’s Husband; her sons, Jeffrey Allen Smith of Utah, Tyler Lee Smith and wife, Lindsay of Reidsville, John Robert Bassett and fiancée Larissa Kays of Norwich, NY and Kenneth Grant Bassett of Smyrna. NY; grandchildren, Leland J. Smith of Reidsville and Kohl Alexander Smith of Reidsville; her mother, Mary Murphy of Green River, WY, her brothers, David Murphy and wife Susan of Green River, WY, Kevin Rigsby and wife Jamie of Lancaster, OH, Kenneth Murphy, Jr. of Ashley, OH, and Charles McCord and wife Heidi of Milan, OH, and numerous nieces, nephews and her extended North Carolina family. The family will receive friends on Friday, December 30, 2016, from 6-8 P.M., at Wilkerson Funeral Home and other times at the home. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Rockingham County, P.O. Box 281, Wentworth, NC 27375 or to Lively Stones Baptist Church, 2347 Chandler Mill Rd., Pelham, NC 27311. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.wilkersonfuneral.com