Helen Carey Penton
Helen began her diaries when she was 40 years old in 1946, living in Newport, New York. I have a collection of her diaries- 15 of them with some years missing- that span 30 years of her life. She was a nurse for many years.
Happily, before I could complete my research about Helen, members of her extended family reached out to me via this website to learn more about her. They were completing a family history project and had some lingering questions that Helen might be able to answer. I was honored to be able to send all 15 of Helen’s diaries to her family members after having fought to keep them from being auctioned off separately, never to be together again. I’m so grateful that they all could be reunited with her family.
