Poetic Obituaries: [Hellen Robinson] was a political activist

who wrote poetry and protested U.S. wars, her family said. She was inspired by her father, Eugene Rex Cantrell, who wrote for communist papers and was arrested trying to organize workers at a Southern California labor camp in the 1930s, said her sons, John and Gene Denos.

"She came out of that 'Dust Bowl' period," John Denos said. "Everything she wrote reflected that period of time, when people were struggling."

from The Sacramento Bee: Hellen Robinson was mom, Realtor, political activist

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