Mildred Vorpahl Baass
- Category : 1917-births
- Type : GP
- Profile : 5/1 - Heretical / Investigator
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : LAX Limitation 1
Biography
American poet, who served as the Poet Laureate of Texas from 1993 to 1995.
Baass was widowed during her first marriage when her husband, Lt. A. M. Hutchison Jr. of the Army Air Corps, was shot down and declared killed in action during World War II. She married her second husband, Judge Alfred C. Baass, on 9 May 1946. Baass had two daughters, Carol Sowa and Nancy Baass.
A resident of Victoria, Texas, Mildred Vorpahl Baass died on 4 November 2012 at the age of 95.