Linda Ann Bass

Linda Ann Bass, 82, of North Little Rock, passed away peacefully in her home on Saturday, January 18, 2025. She was born September 12, 1942 in Houma, Louisiana to Leslie and Delores Harson. 

Linda grew up in a large Cajun family in the home her father built in Houma. Linda practiced her commitment to helping others and giving back to her community as a leader in the Order of the Rainbow for Girls while attending Terrebonne High School. After graduating, she attended LSU’s Charity Hospital School of Nursing. Linda began her nursing career at Baptist Hospital working with an OB/Gyn surgeon in New Orleans. Knowledge in this field became very important to Linda herself when she went into labor with her first child as Hurricane Betsy came ashore in 1965. She spent that long night pouring over nursing books helping her to get through, luckily making it to the powerless hospital the following morning just in time to deliver her son. Linda moved with her then husband, Lewis Crow, to Pine Bluff in 1970. While there she loved playing golf and tennis and was a member of the Pine Bluff Junior League. She moved with her husband and their four children to Little Rock in 1975. After she and Lewis divorced, she worked again as a nurse at Arkansas State Hospital. In 1986 Linda remarried to Terence Patrick Bass III (d.2021), blending their large families. She loved traveling with Pat on many trips and especially enjoyed her visits back to Louisiana to spend time with her family laughing, playing poker, and pickin’ crabs. Linda was a wonderful cook who made a world class gumbo and many delicious cajun delights. She cherished being with family, especially her many grandchildren, step-grandchildren and step-great grandchildren. Lindas’s beautiful crooked smile, contagious laugh, and sparkling brown eyes made those around her feel welcome and at ease. Before becoming incapacitated, Linda was a faithful member of St. Anne’s Catholic Church. She joined the Ladies of Charity organization, helped by making rosaries and volunteered as a “Heavenly Duster” cleaning the church with her friends. Her family is thankful that Linda is now at peace and made it to heaven in time to celebrate her beloved Pat’s birthday with him on January 19th.

Linda is survived by her children, Paul Crow, Anne Galanides (Paul), and Stephen Crow; step-children, Beth Warrior (Manuel), Mary Nelson (Ron), Martha Steinmetz (David), Patricia Bass, Debbie Pharr (Mark), and Patrick Bass IV (Britteny); grandchildren, Linda, Anna, and Johnny Galanides; numerous step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren; siblings, Douglas Harson (Joanie) and Katie Naquin and many extended family and friends. She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Terence Patrick Bass, III; son, Reece Lewis Crow, III; brother, Leslie Harson; and brother-in-law, Mark Naquin.

Her family wishes to extend a special thank you to Linda’s caregivers, Destine Marshall and Patricia Bass. They lovingly helped Paul, Stephen, and Anne care for Linda for four years. Thank you to Baptist Hospice for their dedicated, supportive care. Seniors Serving Seniors in Sherwood also worked with the family to provide excellent care for Linda.