Ben Bass, 77, of El Paso, Texas, formerly of Munford and Memphis, former manager of The Peabody and the Summit Club in Memphis and retired employee of Holiday Inns of America in El Paso, died there Monday. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Munford Funeral Home with burial in Helen Crigger Cemetery. He was a Presbyterian. Bass, the widower of Frances Bass, leaves two sons, Ben Bass Jr. and Patrick Henry Bass, both of El Paso; a sister, Mrs. Mary Wooten of Munford, and two grandchildren. (The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Thursday, June 28, 1990)