Background
Baass was born in San Antonio, Texas, on April 15, 1917, to Alfred H. Vorpahl Senior and Ida M. Keller Vorpahl.
Baass was born in San Antonio, Texas, on April 15, 1917, to Alfred H. Vorpahl Senior and Ida M. Keller Vorpahl.
She served as the Poet Laureate of Texas from 1993 to 1995. Baass had two daughters, Carol Sowa and Nancy Baass. A resident of Victoria, Texas, Mildred Vorpahl Baass died on November 4, 2012, at the age of 95.
