Sam Basham, Jr.

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(February 25, 1927 -- March 7, 2015)

Sam J. Basham, Jr. was a member of First Fandom, and took part in the selection of stories for The Gernsback Awards 1926, Volume 1 (1982).

At one time he was also a member of N3F and attended Philcon.

He was elected to the First Fandom Hall of Fame in 2013.

Basham was a mortician. He married Ellen Barnard in 1949.

A tribute to Basham by Jon D. Swartz appeared in the New Series #49, 3rd Quarter, 2016 issue of Scientifiction -- the First Fandom Report.


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