Bascom II, Calvin Perry Released from this veil of tears and a troublesome blood disease, myelodysplastic syndrome, on November 4, 2014, surrounded by family including his beloved Maizey the Dog. Perry was born July 30, 1936, in his mother's hometown, Boston, MA, to Jean Ames (Hall) Bascom and William R. Bascom. Shortly thereafter he moved to his father's home town of St. Louis. Perry is survived by his wife Sally Cissel Greenwood, his daughters Brooke Bascom (Wellesley Chapman), Seattle WA, and Heather Bascom (Wade Schneider), Eminence, MO, and his almost daughters Sarah Greenwood (Andy Gelle), and Amy Greenwood Dunaway (Tyler), both of St. Louis MO, eight grandkids, Zoe and Elliott Chapman, Billy Schneider, Teddy, Charlie and Jane Dunaway, Calvin and Duff Gelle. His brothers, Bill (Melanie), St. Louis MO, Toby (Annette), Darmstadt, Germany, sister Dede, Pollock Pines CA and former wife Carla Mueller Bascom (Eminence MO) and many nieces and nephews also survive him. Mr. Bascom, a longtime resident of the Central West End, was educated at Price School (now defunct), John Burroughs School \1954, Yale University (1958) and Harvard Law School (1961). After serving briefly in the Army Reserves (Ft. Sill OK, Artillery), he practiced law with the St. Louis firm then known as Bryan, Cave, McPheeters and McRoberts (1962-1995) and after that was Administrator of Gateway Foundation (1995-2001). Mr. Bascom's interests included athletics (especially tennis and soccer until his arm and legs got old), the training of young lawyers, history of the Central West End and U.S. Westward Expansion 1400-1910, road trips (especially travel on the Great Plains) and, until his energy ran out, landscaping and vegetable growing. His Church home for many years has been Trinity Episcopal Church . For Perry, Trinity combines the dignified, formal Anglo-Catholic tradition of smells and bells with a dedicated progressivism, the latter of which he had a hard time swallowing but which eventually swallowed him. Services: Memorial Mass, Trinity Episcopal Church, 600 N. Euclid Ave., 63108, Sunday, November 9, 2014 at 3:30 pm, followed by his dust joining other dust in the Trinity Garden. In lieu of flowers, Perry's family requests gifts to John Burroughs School, 755 S. Price Rd. 63124 (Edward W. Cissel, Jr., Memorial Fund), Trinity Church or the Missouri Humane Society. Please extend condolences at www.luptonchapel.com A SERVICE OF LUPTON CHAPEL

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Published by St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Nov. 7, 2014.

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Susan Harper

December 7, 2015

My beloved friend, words cannot describe how much you are missed. How blessed I am to have known you and to have had an ongoing conversation with you for 25 years. I know God is taking good care of you.

Lloyd Palans

November 8, 2014

An honorable man who possessed the soundness of judgment, a sweetness of disposition ever inclining to the bright side of things, a veracity not to be questioned and a felicity of expression uniquely his own. We will miss you.

MaryKay Vining

November 7, 2014

An old friend died this week. “Everybody dies,” said one colleague; “we're getting to the age that we will be losing friends,” said another. They couldn't possibly know that such mundane comments would fall far short of the significance of this loss. C. Perry Bascom was one of a kind, something often said about people, but rarely so true as it was in his case. I first met him when he interviewed me as a secretarial candidate. It was anything but a job interview. We hit it off immediately, and for a lifetime. It was the first of countless conversations we had over the years, making a deeper connection because of our mutual interests. He was absolutely smitten that I was a Kansas cowgirl and had spent innumerable hours riding my horses in my (and his) beloved Flint Hills. To my delight we also shared a mutual love for the state of Kansas and all things prairie. It was destiny. He was so knowledgeable, and had a voracious interest, in birds, wildflowers, Flint Hills, history. Perry always introduced me to his colleagues as a hand-spanked, corn-fed Kansas cowgirl. I would gripe, noting that I felt like a slab of beef hanging in a meat locker when he said that, which would inspire him to break out in that Perry grin. You know which one I'm talking about. Perry really was born into the wrong era. He was a gentleman, from his bowtie, to his old ways. He hated and resisted technology, despising the advances that threatened his cherished handwritten letters. Email? BAH! If he had his way, we would still have been using the typewriter – nay, pen and ink on personal writing paper! Sadly we lost touch the last few months. He had written that he was gravely ill and suggested I take his dog for him. No way, I told him, he needed her. He stopped writing then and I believe he was trying to protect me. That would have been just like him. He would protest if anyone tried to do something for him, but it was obvious that he secretly enjoyed it. Oh, yes, World, we have lost a gem of immeasurable value. My sincere condolences to Sally and family. May God's peace and love shroud you as you cope with this monumental loss, and all the rest of us as we cope too. Love, Mary Kay Vining

Richard & Sandra Tombaugh

November 7, 2014

We loved our 21 years in the Central West End with you and your family, your sage legal advice, and the exciting years together at Trinity Church. We offer our condolences to all of your family.

Marzale Fosdick

November 7, 2014

What a great man we had for a while on this earth. I've always missed Perry since he moved from Kansas City back to St. Louis. Hope you're still having your afternoon candy bar break Perry!

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