She studied Spanish and Interior Design at Texas Christian University, receiving bachelor's degrees in both subjects in May 1974.
[7][8][9] Her experience in Gander during the days following the attacks, including her learning of the fate of her friend and fellow pilot Charles Burlingame on American Airlines Flight 77, was one of several people's stories featured in the Tony Award–winning Canadian musical Come from Away.
[12] Bass has developed a close friendship with Jenn Colella, the actress who portrays her in the Broadway company of Come from Away, and frequently travels to see the show.
[12][13][14] At the show's closing night in Seattle, Bass presented Colella with the flight jacket, wings, and service pin she was wearing on September 11, to be worn on Broadway.
In 2019 she was made Brian Kelly's TPG Awards honoree, and it was announced that his company had donated $50,000 to the International Society of Women Airline Pilots in Bass's honor.