(Standing: Rear-Admiral Ivan Ernest Bass; Mrs. Cora Bass Pigford; Dr. C. C. Bass; |. H. Bass; 
Seated: Dr. Elizabeth Bass; Mother Bass; Mrs. Wreathe Bass Greer.) 
Mother Bass on her 99th birthday 
Pictured above is a family of pecan growers —a family which has been interested 
in the development of the pecan since the turn of the century. Mrs. Pigford and 
her husband planted one of the largest groves in Pearl River County, Mississippi; 
Dr. C. C. Bass planted one of the largest groves in Lamar County, Mississippi; I. H. 
Bass, our president, has planted and maintains the largest pecan orchards in 
Mississippi. Mother Bass, throughout her years, has maintained an active interest 
in all the achievements of her sons and 
daughters. She helped with the original 
planting of the first pecan trees to be 
sold by the Bass Pecan Company. Her 
own interests have always been close to 
the soil, to plants and trees, to growing 
things, and today, as always, she recom- 
mends to all throughout the South: 
“Plant pecan trees.” 
Mother Bass lives here, in her home paid for by 
pecans. 
PECAN TREES ARE TRULY A LIVING MONUMENT TO FATHER BASS 
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