When Helen Marie (Snookie) Astry was born on 12 November 1934, in Craigville, Koochiching, Minnesota, United States, her father, Leslie Oliver Astry, was 54 and her mother, Harriet Louise Stanley, was 27. She married Michael Mitchell Parson on 8 March 1951, in Craigville, Koochiching, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 25 November 2012, in Grand Rapids, Itasca, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 78.