Earl Bass

Earl Bass graduated from Strahan High School in 1932 and attended the University of Nebraska and Tarkio College.

Earl was active in Malvern's Methodist Church, became a founding member of the Mills County Extension Council in 1955, and helped organize the local Girl Scouts troop.

Bass defeated Otha Wearin in a 1969 special election for a vacated Iowa Senate seat.

[2] In November 1972, Bass was elected to represent Mills County on the Health Planning Council of the Midlands.

[8] Bass's first wife Helen died on June 11, 1994, and he subsequently remarried, to Marjorie Ruth Donner Dashner on March 18, 1995.