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In the ''[[Philcon Memory Book]]'', [[Alexander Phillips]] described her as an “austere and forceful” lady.  
 
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Cloukey was born in Missouri and married Homer Cloukey there. They had several children before moving to the Landsdowne, Pennsylvania area in the late 1920s. Her daughter, Helen Esther Cloukey, won a writing award at Bucknell University in the early 1940s.  Cloukey moved to Virginia after the death of her husband in 1952, where she died in 1966.
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Cloukey was born in [[Missouri]] and married Homer Cloukey there. They had several children before moving to the Landsdowne, [[Pennsylvania]], area in the late 1920s. Cloukey moved to Virginia after the death of her husband in 1952, where she died in 1966.
  
 
[http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/i/i00661.htm#A6 Bibliography at Fiction Mags Index.]
 
[http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/i/i00661.htm#A6 Bibliography at Fiction Mags Index.]
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Revision as of 22:18, 8 September 2021

(October 17, 1886 – October 25, 1966)

Helen Cloukey (born Ola Helen Halsted), a Philadelphia fan, was a member of PSFS and an editor of its OO, Variant, in 1947. She attended the 1938 Philadelphia Conference and Philcon in 1947, and authored a number of stories for Fantascience Digest in the late 1930s.

In the Philcon Memory Book, Alexander Phillips described her as an “austere and forceful” lady.

Cloukey was born in Missouri and married Homer Cloukey there. They had several children before moving to the Landsdowne, Pennsylvania, area in the late 1920s. Cloukey moved to Virginia after the death of her husband in 1952, where she died in 1966.

Bibliography at Fiction Mags Index.



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