HUSBAND Oliver Emerson (O.E., Ollie, Babs) BABCOCK

	Birth	June 1, 1900	Harper, Harper County, Kansas
	Marriage	c 1920
	Death	October 1, 1967	St. Louis, Missouri
	Burial	October 4, 1967	Oak Grove Cemetery; St. Louis, Clayton County, Missouri
	Updated	February 22, 2010
WIFE Helen Delores HASKIN

	Birth	May 11, 1900
	Death	November 28, 1977	St. Louis, Clayton County, Missouri
	Burial		Oak Grove Cemetery; St. Louis, Clayton County, Missouri
	Updated	February 22, 2010
	Marriage
CHILDREN
F	Nancy J BABCOCK
F	Patricia Joan BABCOCK
	Birth	October 18, 1928
	Marriage		Earl Burton
	Death	December 1, 1987	Webster Groves, St. Louis, Clayton County, Missouri
	Burial
	Updated	February 22, 2010

Babs and Helen were visiting in Harper, Kansas when I was in grade school. Babs handed me a half-dollar and told me to hang on to it - that it would be worth a lot of money some day because there would never be any more made with as much silver content!

We visited Babs and Helen in St. Louis the summer after I was in seventh grade. They were the "rich, city relatives." Everything was big and grand! Helen hid her pearls in the baby grand piano!

The summer after my Junior year in high school, Helen and her friend, Helen Naismith Dodd, visited us on the farm. Helen Naismith Dodd - the first woman I had known to use both her maiden and married names! - wrote about her father in my yearbook. James Naismith was the inventor of basketball. I was very impressed by this. I was even more impressed by their diamonds!