Helen Rodgers Faurot

b. May 30, 1890 Pennsylvania
d. August 15, 1982 Watsonville, California

 Helen, her older sister, Pauline, and their parents, Robert Rodgers and Anna Eason, arrived by train in Tucson from Pennsylvania in 1903. They first settled in Elgin, later moving to the area that became Canelo and established farming operations there. She worked with her father Robert before going to the University of Arizona in Agriculture, and three years after she graduated, the Bisbee Daily Review reported in 1913 that she "not only manages the farm, but plows, plants and cultivates it".

 She married Stanley Paul Young at her parents' home in Canelo in 1916; he was visiting his brother, her sister's husband, and was from Astoria, Oregon. His father, a Swedish immigrant, had established large salmon canning operations at the mouth of the Columbia River and in British Columbia. Helen and Stanley established their own farm in Turkey Creek Canyon near her parents and sister but a few years later, their marriage ended.

 She moved to Nogales, and there met Walter A. Faurot; they moved to Los Angeles where they got married in 1923, and in 1927 they had a son, Rodgers; Rod spent a number of his childhood years on the Rodgers ranch in Canelo with his grandparents.

 Sometime in the early 1940s, Helen and Walter divorced, and Helen moved to the Monterey Bay California area, settling on a farm in Watsonville, and she began raising Hereford cattle and became a real estate agent. She had created a home from a converted vegetable stand, built to her diminutive size, and lived there until her death in 1982. Her son, Rod and his wife Betty and their two children lived in the big house adjacent to hers.

Written by Corbin Smith, her grand nephew

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