Hopkinsville, KY, USA / WHOP 1230 AM | News Radio
May 7, 2021 4:37 PM
Lula Belle “MiMi” Bass, who answered the phone and contributed to the Front Porch Fellowship Sunday mornings on WHOP for several years, died Thursday at the age of 84 from natural causes.
Bass was the mother of the show’s host, Tim Bass, and was also the mother of Andy Bass who’s an EMS supervisor in Todd County and assistant chief of the Lacy Volunteer Fire Department. She’s also survived by her husband of 68 years, Eugene Bass.
She retired as a nursing supervisor at Muhlenberg Community Hospital and was a member of Bluff Springs Church of Christ.
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This Wyoming coal town is a place of contradictions. At dawn, the land looks heavenly: Winds rattle the sagebrush; cotton-candy skies make a dusting of snow glow in pastel hues. Later in the afternoon, though, you look to the horizon and see the Earth hemorrhaging gray dust as trucks haul coal from pits the size of suburbs.
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