Nellie Cooley Frye

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  Helen Vanderbilt Frye
  
  Designer Extraordinaire
  
  Sedona Legend Helen Frye
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  For years, I have heard that Helen designed clothes and hats for Marlene Dietrich, helped design new uniforms for Transcontinental and Western Air Hostesses' and had a fashionable Hat Shoppe in Beverly Hills California.
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  Helen opened the shop soon after her marriage to Jack Frye, who fevrently
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  Jack and Helen Frye often stayed at the Ambassador when in Los Angeles.
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  Home of the famous Coconut Grove nightclub, Jack and Helen Frye were often seen there with their friend Howard Hughes.
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  "The hat frames the face," declared Mrs. Frye yesterday as she looked the picture of chic in a beige gabardine tailleur, a bright green blouse, a beige straw hat trimmed in red and green crocheted designs around the wide brim.
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  Daring and original is Mrs. Frye in her own hat designs, all which her husband okays before she wears them.
  
  "I get ideas for hats all the time," she explains.
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  One of Helen's most famous clients was Marlene Dietrich
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  Helen was at a party and as always she was wearing one of her famous hats. Marlene Dietrich was also in attendance and joined Helen.
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  After introductions, Marlene exclaimed, "Where did you buy that lovely hat," to which Helen replied, "I designed it myself!
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  Helen graciously agreed to supply Marlene with smart stylish hats and a wonderful friendship was cemented in the process.
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  Later, Helen also designed clothing for Marlene, specifically pants.
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  Could it be that Helen herself helped contribute to this "Marlene signature look? Most assuredly she did! I have contacted the Marlene Dietrich museum in an effort to track down hats made by Helen in their collection. As a matter of fact, Helen at one time actually delivered an entire outfit design, personally, to Marlene in Beverly Hills.
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  So yes, it is true that Marlene did visit Jack and Helen's, Sedona Smoke Trail Ranch for more than one western get-a-way vacation, bringing her exquisite beauty and presence with her.
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  Mrs. Frye is preparing to create an air wardrobe. She has been a designer ever since her high school days in Clarksburg, W. Va., where she learned to hunt, shoot and ride. An ardent sportswoman, a flyer herself, an inveterate traveler over America, which she knows from State to State, mostly from driving alone with her dog, she's especially suited to getting ideas for American women's styles as she understands, not only the women, but the country itself, so well.
  
  "Hollywood film designers will bring the fashion capitol of the world to California," concluded Mrs. Frye.
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  Helen Frye is remembered within Transcontinental and Western Air to have contributed to the redesign of the 1940's TWA uniforms. It was Jack and Helen Frye's desire to update the dowdy and dated TWA attire.

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  Helen Varner Frye, one of the original founders of the Sedona Arts Center, Inc. (Sedona Arts Barn), is seen reclining under the tree on the far left cloaked in shadow. Per Helen's good friend, Marie Stilley, "Nassan Gobran and Cecil J. Lockhart-Smith, both stood right here in front of my fireplace and told me that Helen had suggested they secure the former packing barn, (shown above), for an art center.
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  Marie went on to say, emphatically, "if it had not been for Helen Frye, Nassan, and Cecil there would never have been a Sedona Arts Center!"
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  Our conversation centered around Jack and Helen Frye, and as it related to our hostess' own rich story of life in this formerly rugged, Northern Arizona Territory.
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  Marie went on to explain, "when Helen arrived, she walked from room to room, accessing the aging structure, 'Live in it,' Helen exclaimed cheerfully!
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  Marie continued, "Helen
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  The logs in the great room, so black, they were hideous, well to that, Helen said simply and matter-of-factly, 'strip them!' Like such a task could easily be accomplished," exclaimed Marie!
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  For the lodge kitchen, Helen recommended they purchase cupboards from Sears and Roebuck. "After they were mounted, Helen painted them, too. "Mrs. Frye was an artist who could make anything look stylish and sheik," Marie stated.
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  It is interesting to note, that Helen Frye fitted out her kitchen at the House of Apache Fires in the same manner.
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  "Helen and I found this together high up on the Mesa at a trading post that no longer exists," she explained, "we would often travel to the reservation on buying trips. This was evidenced by her lodge-style-home which was accented by a multitude of Kachinas and other Native American treasures. "We would take my GMC camper truck at various times, camping and sight-seeing across the Mesas. It was on one of these adventures, that Helen and I at the same time, spied this beautiful rug," said Marie, "we both loved it immediately, but mutually we decided Helen should take it home. It was on one of these adventures, that Helen and I at the same time, spied this beautiful rug," said Marie, "we both loved it immediately, but mutually we decided Helen should take it home.
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  Please see this page, for more information about Helen Frye and the Hopi Navajo People.
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  "We had Jack and Helen up for dinner one evening, that's when I first met Jack Frye.
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  Before hand, I asked Helen, 'what does Jack like to eat?' Helen replied, 'he loves pinto beans.' So I cooked up a big pot of beans and served them with cornbread, pork chops, and a salad.
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  "Helen Frye painted these," exclaimed Marie proudly.
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  Helen, an early Sedona artist was known to have painted many a portrait for her various friends. More examples of her work can be found on this page. Pete Stilley is seen to the left, captured richly by Helen who showcased this young boy as full of life and joy. (1950)
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  Helen painted this one somewhat whimsically, with a water background, fishing, and a foreground of school work. It's obvious she painted it to reflect what Tommy would really rather be doing! (1957)
  
  "Helen loved to paint and photograph Tom," Marie explained, "She felt he was very photogenic.
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  To the left, we see another portrait Helen painted of Tommy in his early years, (1951).
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  Helen was truly a gifted artist, unfortunately, after 50 years, her work is rarely seen, this because Helen did not actively market her art like so many other early Sedona artists. Marie related another "lost" Helen Frye work. "Helen panted a portrait of David and myself, which she had just finished.
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  When he did so he said to her, 'that's a very nice painting, but who is it?' Helen was so annoyed when he didn't recognize the subjects, that she decided she would not release the painting to us.
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  Marie explained the portrait was of her, and that a friend of she and Helen's, Zoe Mozert, painted it in 1960.
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  From Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, to Nassan Gobran, Helen Frye, and Zoe Mozert, naming just a few, a utopia was experienced!
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  Marie related several such gatherings, one at the Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst home off Sedona's, Brewer Road, and another at the Marguerite Staude Ranch, out by the Poco Diablo Resort, all attended by Helen, Nassan, Eddie Ellinger, Cecil Lockhart-Smith, and many others.
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  We all sat down by the warm inviting fire and talked about Helen Frye and the impact she made on the lives of so many of her contemporaries. "There would be no Sedona Arts Center if it weren't for Helen Frye," Marie stated firmly.
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  "One time, a while after Jack and Helen had divorced," Marie said, "Helen had desired to sell out and move on.
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  "One time, a while after Jack and Helen had divorced," Marie said, "Helen had desired to sell out and move on.
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  Marie continued her interesting narrative of early Sedona life, "our cabin in Sedona which adjoins Helen's, Wings of the Wind, was a project for the boys and their father on the weekends.
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  "And that," Marie continued, "is how we became neighbors of Jack and Helen Frye!
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  Later, when we built the cabin we didn't have any water, so Helen let us run a hose over to her Wings of the Wind Well. Soon though, we realized that this wouldn't do for long and we went ahead and drilled our own well. We have had good water down there every since. The Fryes and the Stilleys became close friends and neighbors. Sheer cliffs separate the properties, which are both perched on rocky pinnacles. At the end of her life, Helen was living a life of quiet solitude at the Wings of the Wind. Marie and Helen would often visit back and forth, (or rather shout) across the abyss, between the cliffs to check on each other and share news, as good neighbors do.
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  "Helen and Nassan found the piece of wood together, down on Oak Creek, the end result is what you see here," said Marie proudly.
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  A reminder of an art legacy left behind by Helen Frye and Nassan Gobran. A piece, I daresay, few people know exists today! So with that, we packed up the equipment and said goodbye to our charming hostess. On the way home, we both marveled at all the glorious history we had learned, and we were moved, by what a loyal friend Helen Frye had in Marie Stilley!
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  Helen Frye, center, with her and Marie's friend, Rosie Armijo, and her husband, Frank.
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  It must be noted that Helen Varner Vanderbilt Frye was certainly well-connected in her love of the arts.
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  The music not only enhances this page but perfectly accompanies Helen Frye's journey into the Navajo-Hopi Lands.

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  Frye was born on March 18, 1904, near Sweetwater, Oklahoma, the son of William Henry and Nellie Cooley Frye.His mother died when he was eight years old, and he was raised by his father and grandparents on the family's 15,000-acre ranch in the Texas Panhandle near Wheeler.Frye dropped out of high school at age seventeen and spent a year in the Army Engineer Corps.In 1923 he moved to the Los Angeles area, where he worked as a dishwasher and soda jerk.Interested in flying, he used his earnings to take lessons at a local air-field.Before the end of the year, he had borrowed money from his brother to buy a half interest in the Burdett Flying School, whose major asset was a single Curtiss Jenny.
  
  Burdett developed slowly over the next two years, adding a second Jenny and expanding into movie stunt flying.In February 1926 Frye and two associates bought out the original owner of the company and renamed it the Aero Corporation of California.Aero prospered as regional distributor for Eaglerock and Fokker airplanes.It also operated one of the finest flying schools in the country, operated charters, and developed a profitable maintenance business.On November 28, 1927, Aero capitalized on the "Lindbergh boom" by using a subsidiary named Standard Air Lines to begin a scheduled passenger and express service between Los Angeles and Tucson via Phoenix with a six passenger Fokker F-VII.
  
  Frye, who often flew trips for the airline, extended service to El Paso in 1928.The following year, Standard became the western link in an air--rail transcontinental schedule.Beginning on August 4, 1929, passengers could travel from New York to St. Louis by rail, connect with a Southwest Air Fast Express Ford Trimotor for a flight to Sweetwater, then take the overnight train to El Paso.Standard took over at that point, carrying passengers to Los Angeles in Fokker F-X Trimotors along what its advertisement brochures described as "the Fair Weather Route."If all went on schedule, the coast-to--coast trip could be made in 43 hours and 40 minutes.
  
  In May 1930, with Standard feeling the efforts of the early stages of the Great Depression, Frye and his associates sold the airline to Harris M. Hanshue of Western Air Express.
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  Frye went with the merged companies as vice-president for operations.
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  Frye remained in charge of operations for the new Transcontinental and Western Air.
  
  Under Frye's direction, TWA inaugurated the first all-air transcontinental service on October 25, 1930.The trip took 36 hours and required an over-night stop in Kansas City.Two years later, on November 5, 1932, TWA began flying through the night on the route, reducing coast-to-coast travel time to 24 hours.Frye played a key role in the search for a replacement for TWA's Fokker transports, which had been removed from passenger service following an accident on March 31, 1931, that resulted in the death of Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne.
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  In August 1932 Frye wrote to the nation's leading air-craft manufacturers, setting out the specifications for an all-metal, three-engined transport that could carry 12 passengers at a cruising speed of 146 miles per hour over a distance of 1,060 miles."This plane fully loaded," Frye stressed, "must make satisfactory take-offs under good control at any TWA air-port on any combination of two engines."Only Donald Douglas responded to Frye's demanding requirements.The twin-engine DC-1, able to take off with a single engine in the event of an engine failure, first flew on July 1, 1933.The production model, the 14-passenger DC-2, went into service with TWA the following year.The new Douglas transport reduced transcontinental travel time to 16 hours.
  
  On February 18-19, 1934, Frye made a dramatic demonstration of the capabilities of the impressive Douglas airliner.Responding to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to cancel all air-mail contracts, Frye and Edward V. Rickenbacker, vice-president of Eastern Air Transport, set out from Los Angeles in TWA's DC-1 on a record-breaking transcontinental flight.
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  One of the few air-line executives to hold a transport pilot's license, Frye flew the last load of airmail to Newark (with two refueling stops) in 13 hours and 4 minutes.A year that began badly ended well for Frye.Following a series of reorganizations caused by the Air Mail Act of 1934, which returned the airmail to private contractors, Frye was named president of TWA on December 27.In the short space of 11 years, Frye had risen from a high school dropout and soda jerk to the youngest airlines president in the country.
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  TWA became known as a "pilot's airline" under Frye.Despite limited financial resources, TWA took the lead in exploring high-speed, high--altitude, all-weather flying.This work led to the development of the Boeing 307, the first pressurized passenger transport.Introduced by TWA in July 1940, the airplanes gave Frye a competitive edge on the transcontinental route before American entry into World War II in December 1941 resulted in their transfer to the army for use in the foreign courier service.
  
  By the time the 307s appeared, TWA's owner-ship had changed hands.
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  Convinced that Hertz, who lacked a background in aviation, was standing in the way of the airline's technological progress, Frye persuaded Howard Hughes, an old friend, to acquire a controlling interest in the company.
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  Frye used the airline's wartime work to challenge Pan American's monopoly of overseas markets.In July 1945 the Civil Aeronautics Board granted TWA the authority to fly to Europe, with onward rights to India.In August 1946, the airline received permission to fly across southern Asia to Shanghai.
  
  Frye's own tenure with TWA came to an end in February 1947.Ever since Hughes had taken control of the airline in 1939-1940, Frye had been engaged in a constant struggle for power with Noah Dietrich, the new owner's chief assistant.
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  Frye resigned to avoid being fired.
  
  Frye landed on his feet.He became president of the General Ailine and Film Corporation at a salary that was four times what he had earned with TWA.On July 21, 1950, he married Nevada Smith, a former Las Vegas showgirl.
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  In 1955 Frye resigned from General Aniline and formed his own company, The Frye Corporation, to develop a rugged trimotored airplane for use in underdeveloped countries.The Northrop company built a prototype, called the Pioneer, which Frye used to interest potential investors and customers.He raised $2 million for the project, to which he added his own savings.He moved to Tucson, Arizona, and was planning a site for his factory when he was struck and killed by a drunk driver on February 3, 1959.

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  In an interview with one of Helen Frye's former secretaries, Jean C. Strong, we learn more about Helen's love for the Native American culture.
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  "It was during the construction of the Apache Fires house that Helen had her first major encounter with a rattlesnake.
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  Helen became friends with her native workmen employed at her ranch and was fascinated by their stories.In her visits to the reservation she became acquainted with a renowned Hopi-Navajo Medicine Man whom she called 'Grandfather.' He was so taken by her healing talents that he invited her to become his apprentice.But by this time her health was so bad she felt she wouldn't survive the primitive conditions the experience would entail.She did continue to visit him from time to time, as well as with other Indians.From her native friends she also learned many cooking recipes and methods which she often shared with the frequent guests in her home.Helen was a fabulous and creative cook.
  
  Because of her relationship with the Indians, Helen was frequently invited to attend their scared ceremonies and dances from which outsiders were generally excluded.As Helen's friend, I was also allowed to attend these ceremonies, even the young women's initiation dance.The snake dance was another of these ceremonies we attended.Once when a native friend of Helen's died, the tradition was followed of burning his Hogan with all the family possessions.This was necessary to remove the evil spirit which had caused his disease.Helen saw the need of his family however- and took her pick-up truck around to friends soliciting donations of household goods.The man's family was so grateful that they had a special dance of thanks and celebration in Flagstaff to honor Helen Frye and those who had helped.Many times I tried to convince her to write her life story!
  
  I think most people that knew Helen would agree she was a unique 'character.' She was warm-hearted and generous- sometimes to her own detriment.She also was a master story-teller.Helen Frye was a good friend of mine to whom I am indebted.I am grateful that you asked me for my recollections, as I feel Helen deserves to be honored and respected for the unique human being she was."
  
  Photos of Helen visiting the Navajo-Hopi Land Fall of 1960.
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  The music highlights Helen Frye's incredible bond with the Hopi-Navajo People, and her life long search for spiritual awareness.

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  by Helen Varner Frye
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  In 1979, Helen Frye wrote the following piece which ran in two parts- two separate issues.This beautiful work- lost to the public until now, explains in Helen's own experience and words, her odyssey into Native American Indian culture and her own awakening into spirit.The article is a testament to the writing skill and manner of Helen Frye, a talent she cultivated her entire life.
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  In an interview with one of Helen Frye's former secretaries, Jean C. Strong, we learn more about Helen's love for the Native American culture.
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  "It was during the construction of the Apache Fires house that Helen had her first major encounter with a rattlesnake.
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  Helen became friends with her native workmen employed at her ranch and was fascinated by their stories.In her visits to the reservation she became acquainted with a renowned Hopi-Navajo Medicine Man whom she called 'Grandfather.' He was so taken by her healing talents that he invited her to become his apprentice.But by this time her health was so bad she felt she wouldn't survive the primitive conditions the experience would entail.She did continue to visit him from time to time, as well as with other Indians.From her native friends she also learned many cooking recipes and methods which she often shared with the frequent guests in her home.Helen was a fabulous and creative cook.
  
  Because of her relationship with the Indians, Helen was frequently invited to attend their scared ceremonies and dances from which outsiders were generally excluded.As Helen's friend, I was also allowed to attend these ceremonies, even the young women's initiation dance.The snake dance was another of these ceremonies we attended.Once when a native friend of Helen's died, the tradition was followed of burning his Hogan with all the family possessions.This was necessary to remove the evil spirit which had caused his disease.Helen saw the need of his family however- and took her pick-up truck around to friends soliciting donations of household goods.The man's family was so grateful that they had a special dance of thanks and celebration in Flagstaff to honor Helen Frye and those who had helped.Many times I tried to convince her to write her life story!
  
  I think most people that knew Helen would agree she was a unique 'character.' She was warm-hearted and generous- sometimes to her own detriment.She also was a master story-teller.Helen Frye was a good friend of mine to whom I am indebted.I am grateful that you asked me for my recollections, as I feel Helen deserves to be honored and respected for the unique human being she was."
  
  Photos of Helen visiting the Navajo-Hopi Land Fall of 1960.
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  The music highlights Helen Frye's incredible bond with the Hopi-Navajo People, and her life long search for spiritual awareness.

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  Helen leaves her Sedona,Smoke Trail Ranchfor the last time.
  
  Sedona Legend Profile Series
  
  Late fall was in the air.The cottonwoods of Smoke Trail Ranch, now (Red Rock State Park), were crowned with God's artistry in a vast array of golden colors.The hot blasts of heat sweeping through the canyons were just a memory now.Helen was walking down by the creek on Old Smoke Trail under the golden leaves, listening to the rhythmic flow of Oak Creek over the rocks and rapids.Her heart was absorbed by the beauty of this lovely place: her and Jack's Smoke Trail Ranch.Yet at the same time she was saddened by a darkness that had decended over her of which she could not escape.You see, Helen was suffering from terminal lung cancer.Her time to leave this earth was nigh.She was only 71, and felt she should still have many more years to live, but she knew in her heart it was not to be.If only she could somehow take this beauty with her, this place she had never wanted to be far from, this place that was the very essence of her spirit: Sedona and her ranch.A chill suddenly came over her.The wind was rustling through the leaves now, emitting the sound that can only be heard from Arizona Cottonwoods.Leaves started falling like snowflakes on a winter's day, obscuring the golden rays of the late afternoon sun.Helen pulled her shawl around her shivering body, and started back to the Wings of the Wind.Later that night while sitting in front of her fireplace, Helen knew she would make the journey up to the House of Apache Fires one last time in the morning.
  
  The next morning Helen awoke after having slept peacefully.It seems her dreams were always about the past now, dreams of memories out of reach, of people whom have passed on, joys and love she had experienced.Her housekeeper helped dress her frail body and prepare Helen for the last time she would ever set foot in the House of Apache Fires.It was another crisp and sunny Sedona day, Helen was grateful to her Creator for allowing her such beauty on this monumental occasion.At last Helen arrived at the House of Apache Fires and the massive door was swung open.
  
  She stepped into the entry way of the dreamhouse that she and Jack built, and immediately a flood of emotion like an old friend permeated her entire body.It overwhelmed her so much she reached out to the wall to steady herself.The elderly woman asked to be left alone now, as she wandered the hallways and empty rooms.You see, the House of Apache Fires was not empty to her, rather it was filled with memories that no other person could possibly embrace, memories of hopes and dreams.Jack was there waiting for her, she felt him in every room.She felt him more and more now, as her time to move on neared.He was in her dreams every night, the fringes of her mind each day.Suddenly she turned around, she felt his radiance, his powerful presence, his love and the words, "I am here, Helen, don't be afraid, I am waiting for you."Helen started weeping.It was like he really was there, like he had never been gone, like he had never died.She looked around, but only emptiness reflected back in her weary eyes.
  
  Helen composed herself and continued into what was to be Jack's TWA (home) office and gazed out of the massive windows that framed their valley below and horizons of the Sedona countryside.The vistas were forever, beauty unsurpassed in her mind, and overwhelmingly beautiful.Yes, this was her Sedona.Then her eyes came to rest on the Wings of the Wind Estate, high on its bluff, a sentinel to it all.Suddenly, a sadness touched her, in realizing that Jack was never able to share it with her.With tears streaking her weathered face, she made her way slowly out of Jack's office and to the front door, her body racked with pain from the life robbing cancer.She knew she would never again visit this place, at least in the physical.As she passed through the front door her frail hands caressed the door frame lovingly and gently.She made her way down the walkway and her friends helped her into the waiting car, Helen Frye left the House of Apache Fires for the last time.Her energy spent and near collapse, she was ready at last to be admitted to the hospital.
  
  Helen's life was ebbing away in that cold sterile building where lives were saved, but her's wouldn't be one of them.After many tests and procedures, she decided to sign herself out while she still had the strength.Helen was determined the life she had left would be spent on the property she belonged living or dead: Smoke Trail Ranch.
  
  She was driven back to the ranch, past the gates and up the long winding drive.At last, she felt a relief deep in her soul.Yes, this is where she wanted to spend the last precious moments of life, not in a hospital filled with strangers.She made her way through the door into her "sanctuary" Wings of the Wind.She was home at last.She vowed she would not leave again.
  
  Later Helen, sat misty-eyed, for what seemed like an eternity in front of the plate glass windows of the Wings of the Wind.She gazed out for hours on her beloved Smoke Trail Ranch in a trance of sorts.The memories swirled around and through her like the mist on a foggy day.She allowed herself to embrace each and every one.Helen wanted to hold on to these memories for an eternity, to never forget one incident.
  
  Jack and her were flying over Smoke Trail Ranch in their gleeming Lockheed Electra.She could hear the drone of the powerful engines.She relived them both discovering this lovely valley together, claiming it as theirs.The memories of their dreams and disappointments, their love and passion, and all the friends they shared their lives with.It was all here, displayed below her in a tapestry of threaded memories.Helen Varner Vanderbilt Frye resolved she would never forget this place and her life here, she would hold it in her heart for an eternity!
  
  Finally, after what seemed a lifetime of gazing out on her Sedona valley, Helen weakly retired to her bedroom, her heart filled with joy.Helen was at peace, she did not fear death.She was firm in her belief that God was not an entity to be feared, but a loving energy that was a part of all people and things.
  
  Helen Varner Vanderbilt Frye died that night on December 4, 1979.Her weakened body slipped away, life spent, energy depleted.
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  Helen was suddenly filled with a joy that was immeasurable, a universal love indescribable.All her loneliness and anquish melted away in that moment.In an instant they soared hand in hand up out of the House of Apache Fires, far and away, free of the physical earth.Light as a feather they journeyed through a tunnel of vibrant colors and into the most beautiful light and love Helen had ever experienced.Their journey complete, Helen was now surrounded by incredible light and love, and the souls of those whom had passed on.Those she had known, those she had forgotten, they all greeted her and welcomed her home, home to the essence of God.
  
  Please Note: This is a fictional story about Helen, based on true events.It is written in a way that reflected Helen Frye's last days and her own beliefs in the hereafter.
  
  Helen Frye did not want to believe she was terminally ill.She disliked having to see doctors, and detested hospitals.Unfortunately Helen had smoked most of her life, and this abuse came back to haunt her in the end.In the fall of 1979 Helen's sister came to the Wings of the Wind to see her.Helen was visibly ill, her sister urged her to see a specialist or enter a hospital.Helen wanted none of it.Helen didn't need a doctor to tell her what she already knew in her heart, it was nearly over.The time period now was the end of November.Helen's neighbor and good friend implored Helen to enter the Flagstaff Hospital.Helen finally agreed, an ambulance arrived at the estate and Helen was rushed up the canyon, her life precarious.The news however was not favorable.The x-rays revealed severe lung carcinoma, and pulmonary insufficiency.The doctor gave Helen- 5 days to live.By now Helen was dependent on oxygen to breathe.Helen returned home to the Wings of the Wind and died within days.For more information on this time of her life, please see: B

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  An imprint in the fabric of time, perhaps of when Jack and Helen used to circle the ranch coming and going from their property?
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  Or is it Jack and Helen reliving the elation they felt when they discovered the property for the first time?
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  The Hopi Indians of whom Helen entertained many times on the ranch say, the land is sacred, and the lights are a sign of that.Many say it is a mirage of light that occurs when the sun sets.The light is said to flash across from mountain to mountain.One sure thing is, it would spook the cattle and horses that Helen and Jack kept here back in the 1940's. (This according to their ranch foreman.) Is there anything to it?
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  On a side note: Helen always considered the ranch property sacred.This is a sentiment shared by many about other places around Sedona too.The Hopi leaders who visited the property through the years at Helen's request felt Old Smoke Trail Ranch was very special.When Helen Frye and Jack Frye were first married, it is said Helen was ill.When Helen Frye and Jack Frye were first married, it is said Helen was ill.
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  Of course Helen had smoked her entire life, this physical damage is hard to reverse.
  
  I have not been up to the Wings of the Wind Estate, but I would wager it is haunted.However, because it is owned by a private party, I have resisted knocking on the door.I know the present owners have been besieged by people through the years trespassing and wanting to see Helen's home.Helen did die in the home and her ashes are scattered on the property.
  
  There has been talk by people that have worked for Red Rock State Park about the Twin Cypress area being haunted.Of course for the nearly 40 years when the property was Helen and Jack's Old Smoke Trail Ranch, this location was called Long Meadow.
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  I was told recently from a gentleman that knew Helen in the years before she died that the kitchen had a large range in it, I assume a wood cook stove, and it was always set up for large gatherings. (My impression was with ample accessories for entertaining.) Helen did entertain there occasionally.Another person told me she would visit Helen there as a little girl and Helen would always be so kind and generous in letting her play all over the house.She even said she was allowed to play on the swinging bed in the studio.Helen would always make her a nice lunch with sandwiches and soup.So the kitchen was a happy place, when Helen was alive.
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  However, I have recently discovered this can not be said about Helen's upstairs studio.After scrutinizing photos for months, tonight I pulled up the photo of Helen's studio fireplace taken in the late 1940's.Suddenly I was completely taken aback.
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  Because the photo was taken in about 1949 or so, we know it is likely someone from before Jack and Helen owned the property.

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  Helen Varner Vanderbilt FryeSedona Legend Helen Frye
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  Helen Varner Vanderbilt Frye pictured on her Sedona Arizona, Smoke Trail Ranch,now Red Rock State Park, in about 1954.
  
  This 1935 photo of Helen when she worked for Pond's Cold Cream Company.To say she is beautiful is an understatement!Please see Eternal Girlfriends for more information, and to view the entire ad.
  
  For more photos of Helen Frye from her TWA years, please see this page:the Lost Photos of Jack and Helen Frye, and this page: The TWA Constellation, "Star of Paris."
  
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  "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year"from Helen Frye in 1958,
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  Rosie is the adopted daughter and dear friend of Jack and Helen Frye, closely sharing life with them at Smoke Trail Ranch in Sedona, from 1947 on ....

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  Helen here | "The Lost Photos of Helen Frye",
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  Helen Varner Vanderbilt FryeSedona Legend Helen Frye
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  Helen Varner Vanderbilt Frye pictured on her Sedona Arizona, Smoke Trail Ranch,now Red Rock State Park, in about 1954.
  
  This 1935 photo of Helen when she worked for Pond's Cold Cream Company.To say she is beautiful is an understatement!Please see Eternal Girlfriends for more information, and to view the entire ad.
  
  For more photos of Helen Frye from her TWA years, please see this page:the Lost Photos of Jack and Helen Frye, and this page: The TWA Constellation, "Star of Paris."
  
  "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year"from Helen Frye in 1958,
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  Rosie is the adopted daughter and dear friend of Jack and Helen Frye, closely sharing life with them at Smoke Trail Ranch in Sedona, from 1947 on ....

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  Helen Varner Vanderbilt FryeSedona Legend Helen Frye
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  Helen Varner Vanderbilt Frye pictured on her Sedona Arizona, Smoke Trail Ranch,now Red Rock State Park, in about 1954.
  
  This 1935 photo of Helen when she worked for Pond's Cold Cream Company.To say she is beautiful is an understatement!Please see Eternal Girlfriends for more information, and to view the entire ad.
  
  For more photos of Helen Frye from her TWA years, please see this page:the Lost Photos of Jack and Helen Frye, and this page: The TWA Constellation, "Star of Paris."
  
  "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year"from Helen Frye in 1958,
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  Rosie is the adopted daughter and dear friend of Jack and Helen Frye, closely sharing life with them at Smoke Trail Ranch in Sedona, from 1947 on ....

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