[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 144 (Thursday, October 6, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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[Congressional Record: October 6, 1994]
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                    TRIBUTE TO THE LATE ROY BASSETT

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                            HON. IKE SKELTON

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, October 6, 1994

  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, Missouri lost an outstanding law 
enforcement officer in a tragic shootout in Maries County recently. 
That county's sheriff, Roy Bassett, was fatally wounded when he went to 
the scene of a traffic accident near Vienna to assist a State trooper.
  Roy Bassett was an outstanding citizen and professional in his law 
enforcement duties. The Reverend Tom Waickman said during the funeral 
service ``I know quite a few people he helped out not as a sheriff but 
as a Christian person.'' The executive director of the Missouri 
Sheriff's Association, Jim Vermeersch, said that Bassett was ``a hero, 
who placed helping others ahead of helping himself.'' The neighboring 
Osage County Sheriff Carl Fowler called Bassett outstanding in 
providing assistance to other law enforcement officers.
  Sheriff Basset was very popular and will be remembered as a warm 
caring person who liked people. He was an Air Force Vietnam War 
Veteran. His wife Marilyn and three children survive.
  Through the years, I had the pleasure of calling Roy Bassett my 
friend. He was a good and decent man in the finest sense of those 
words. He will be greatly missed by those who knew him. I know that the 
members of this body join me in sending sympathy to the entire Bassett 
family on the loss of this outstanding Missourian.

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