Amy Ruth Moore Bass was a devout Christian Woman. She was a native Alabamian, the wife of Elijah Bass Sr., the mother of 10 children; 7 daughters and 3 sons; the grandmother of 12 grand-children. She was a farmer, a gardner, the world's best cook and a very friendly person. Amy Ruth was a Sunday School Teacher and she also sang in the church choir. She was a long time member of Jerusalem AME Church. Amy Ruth loved her family.

She taught all of her children and grandchildren how to love each other, to look-out for one another, and to respect themselves as well as others. By her example, she also taught how to love god and to put god first with all that we do.

As a child my mother Inez Bass and her second eldest sister Esther Bass would send their children to spend the summer months with our grandmother Amy Ruth Bass and Grand-dad Elijah Bass, Sr. Their reason. was simple; it would be a safer and more enriching experience for us to spend our idle summer time in the south, which was somewhat safer than the big city of New York.

During those summer months, each one of my brothers; Eric and Gregory, and my two first cousins, Ahmed and Marten, were assigned various tasks. The main tasks included mowing the rather large lawn and picking various vegetables in the vegetable garden