• Parents
  • George DeLawson Lowry (b January 17, 1880)
  • Ethel Mabel Foller (b May 23, 1888)
• Born April 13, 1913 in Buffalo, New York
• Adopted officially in 1929 by step-father Carl Krans, name was changed to Helen Krans
• Died February 6, 2001 in Redmond, Washington

She played with the Jacks next door as a child. She studied art in college; Florence Bach was one of her teachers. Her name was changed to Krans when she was 13, which she found terribly embarrassing.