Book of Poetry

Book of PoetryFrances P. Helmold

Frances Helmold was born in Monterey Park in Los Angeles County in 1928. When she was six months old, the family moved to Heyburn, Idaho. Her mother was born there and her father was from Burley, Idaho. When she was only eight years old, her Mother died of an infection. They didn't have any medicine at that time, but the doctor in Burley had heard of a new drug called Sulfa. He called Chicago and asked them to send it which they did. But a late spring storm came up and the plane had to land and wait it out. By the time he got to Burley, it was too late. Frances was raised on the farm of her Grandmother and Grandfather in Heyburn. But then her father got remarried and took the children with him. Later they moved to Portland, Oregon. She always felt like a lost little girl and then she moved back to Burley. When she was eighteen, she married. She stuck it out for nineteen years. Now, Frances is seventy seven years old. She is married again to the most wonderful man in the world.