Of Danish origin, Helen R. Gustafson was born October 13, 1923 in St. Paul in Nebraska but still moved little girl before in Des Moines and then to Iowa Falls.
He studied at the University of Iowa and graduated from the University of Colorado.
After working briefly as a stewardess for United Airlines he returned to Des Moines where he spent the whole of his life and where he worked writing lyrics for a local radio station. There, she met her first husband Al Rockwell with whom he had two sons.
ACBL Member for over 40 years, turned the United States and the world with her second husband John (photo to dx), competing everywhere and coming to win the Rockwell Mixed Pairs of 1983 and Truscott USPC Senior Swiss of 1997 and represent the US in three International competitions.
Helen, who also had two children with her second husband, remained very active into old age and disappeared because of a lung cancer on June 23 of 2011.