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Wilma Bass

Sisterhood of Temple Beth Sholom presents Ladies in Politics: If We Ruled the World, 1976. Wilma Bass in jersey.
Sisterhood of Temple Beth Sholom presents Ladies in Politics: If We Ruled the World, 1976. Wilma Bass in jersey.

Wilma (Frank) Bass (1939- ) is a retired Las Vegas, Nevada jewelry salesperson. Born and raised in New York, New York, Bass graduated from high school around 1958. She married Burt Bass in 1960 and the family moved to Las Vegas in the 1974. Wilma Bass was involved in theater from the time she was ten years old, and when she moved to Las Vegas she put her talents to use writing, directing, and producing shows for the Sisterhood of Temple Beth Sholom and ORT (a Jewish education and vocational training organization founded in Russia in 1880, originally named Obshestvo Remeslennogo zemledelcheskogo Truda).

Source:

Bass, Wilma and Burt. Interview, 2015 February 9. OH-02273. Transcript. Oral History Research Center, Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

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