Helen J. Farabee
| Helen Jane Rehbein Farabee | |
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| Born |
November 12, 1934 Appleton Outagamie County, Wisconsin, USA |
| Died | July 28, 1988 (aged 53) Austin Travis County, Texas |
| Residence | Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin at Madison |
| Occupation | Mental health activist |
| Political party | Democrat |
| Spouse(s) | Ray Farabee |
| Children |
Steven R. Farabee |
| Parent(s) | Wilmer C. and Myra Grace Rehbein |
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Farabee was the first woman student body president of a Big Ten university in the United States. (2) Like her spouse, Ray Farabee, Helen Farabee was an active Democrat and made a brief effort shortly before her own death to succeed her husband as a Texas state senator. |
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Steven R. Farabee
Farabee was the first woman student body president of a Big Ten university in the United States.
(2) Like her spouse, Ray Farabee, Helen Farabee was an active Democrat and made a brief effort shortly before her own death to succeed her husband as a Texas state senator.
Helen Jane Rehbein Farabee, known as Helen J. Farabee (November 12, 1934 – July 28, 1988), was a 20th-century advocate of improved mental health and human services in Texas. She was the first wife of State Senator Ray Farabee, an attorney originally from Wichita Falls. Their younger son, David Lee Farabee, a Wichita Falls businessman, is a former member of the Texas House of Representatives. An older son, Steven R. Farabee (born 1961), resides in Austin.
Farabee was born in Appleton, the seat of Outagamie County in east central Wisconsin, to Wilmer C. Rehbein (1902–1991) and Myra Grace Rehbein (1905–1991). Her parents succumbed within four months of each other some three years after her own death. Helen graduated in 1957 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was the first female yet elected as a student body president at a Big Ten institution. Through her travels in student government, she met Ray Farabee, the president of the student body at the University of Texas at Austin. The couple wed on December 6, 1958. While her husband served in the United States Air Force, Helen worked for the defunct Dallas Times-Herald (former competitor to the Dallas Morning News) and Better Homes and Gardens magazine. In Austin, she was an assistant dean of women at UT and worked with the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, while her husband completed his J.D. law degree.
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