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- History of the Town of Lima
Fayette County, Iowa
Allie Bass
Allie Bass was born south of Lima, Iowa on June 16, 1900 and died March, 1947 in Sacramento, California. Her father was Sion Bass; mother was Alice Della Dean Bass. She had four sisters, Carrie, Bertha, Lottie and Minnie and two brothers, Thomas and Farrell.
Allie went to elementary school near Lima. In 1925 she received her B.A. Degree in Education at Iowa State Teacher's College in Cedar Falls. She received her Masters Degree from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
She was a Methodist Missionary in India for many years, and was an instructor in a Methodist boy's school in India for sixteen years. She was a Social Science instructor in a Junior College in North Carolina. In 1945 she was a business manager in a college in India. She also taught in Central High School in Ames, Iowa.
In letters to friends, Allie said that at first the new missionaries in India were depressed with the poverty and afflictions of the people, but as time went on the missionaries became so interested in ways to help the people to better living that they had no time to get depressed.
She told about visiting the Taj Mahal, which is a beautiful tomb built in the 17th century. She said it was considered the most perfect piece of architecture in the world which took 20,000 men 17 years to complete.
Allie told about the children in India giving a school program; it was a small group of children in a large non-Christian city. They would stand up and sing songs of Christ and his love, repeat scripture and Apostle's Creed, and offer prayers. They gave this program in their native tongue and then would repeat it in English for the English speaking people. The children would go to different sections of the city and through their singing and Bible stories, influenced many people to become Christians.
When growing up she attended Sunday School and Church at Lima. In April, 1933, she spoke to the Lima Church congregation about her work in India. At this time she gave the Lima Church a baptismal bowl, which is here today, but is kept in the Lima Room at the Historical Center, in West Union. Reverend D.M. Parker was present that day at the Lima Church. That same day Reverend Parker baptized Ronald Lambert, using the baptismal bowl for the first time, while Alllie Bass was present. That same day Allie told the congregation that she had been in the oldest church in the world, the most beautiful church in the world, and many others, but none gave her the thrill she received when she came in sight of her little home church at Lima, where she received her first religious training and gave her heart to God.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1900 - 1947 (46 years)