Humes, Helen

Humes, Helen 23 June 1909; Louisville, KY – 13 September 1981; Santa Monica, CA Helen Humes’s birth date was long given as 1913, but her own later testimony to writer Helen Oakley Dance revealed she was actually born in 1909. Her father, John Henry Humes, was a lawyer. Her mother, Emma Humes (née Johnson), was a schoolteacher and was musical. She encouraged her to sing and to play piano, and later taught her to read music. She played with the local Sunday School band, which also featured…