You have provided "good" information to start research. Do you recall names of your father's siblings? Are these familiar: Helen, Carl, Lanier, Mary, Roy, and Neal? I am tracing the family of Leonard Lawrence Bassham (25 May 1880 - 9 Jul 1933). A son William was born 1917/1918. You did not include your father's lifespan but that william would have been age 21 in 1939. Am I "warm"?