Helen June Tidwell Harbaugh was born on June 24, 1927, to William Lawrence Tidwell and Helen Mae Shafer Tidwell at Kiowa, Kansas. She was the only girl in the family and the fifth child. She had five brothers, Lonnie, Dewey, Lloyd, Jack and Bill. She passed away at Kiowa District Hospital on September 6, 2022.

She lived west of Kiowa on the Blackstock Farms until her father passed away when she was 15 years old and she became a caregiver to her mother and brothers. She then moved to town and graduated with the Class of 1945 at Kiowa High School. She worked at several different jobs during scho...