[3] Her parents owned the Quality Grocery in Casper, which her mother managed while her father worked at the White Eagle Oil and Refinery plant.

[7] Helen attended the local grade school in Lander while also learning to ride horses on the ranch, a skill that would come in useful during her later teens.

[12] When newspapers in surrounding states started printing a wire service photo and caption saluting the 17 year-old blue-eyed blonde as "Truly a girl of the Golden West", local boosters bestowed a free trip to the New York World's Fair to supplement the paltry cash prize.

[13] As Miss Wyoming, Helen greeted Thomas E. Dewey when his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination visited Cheyenne in February 1940.

[14] Once again the wire services sent her photo out across the country, as she showed the aspiring politician the proper angle for wearing a "ten-gallon" hat.

[17] After her freshman year at Wyoming, Helen transferred to the Pasadena Playhouse School of Theater Arts, at the time an accredited college.

[23] While performing one night on the Playhouse's main stage, Helen suddenly felt faint; after delivering her lines she collapsed backstage where it was found one of the long needles from her 1890's costume had pierced her leg.

This latter was a curiosity by Patterson Greene, with lines full of Pennsylvania-Dutch vernacular, which amused the audience so much "a dozen curtain calls were necessary".

[26] She reprised her role in Charley's Aunt with a company of Playhouse players who toured military bases in Southern California during Summer 1943.

[27] For late November 1943 she had a feature role in the West Coast premiere of Dark Eyes, which had just closed on Broadway.

[29] In December 1945 columnist David Hanna reported that Helen Inkster had been signed to a contract at Columbia Pictures, and would shortly be making her first film with Richard Dix.

[34] Mowery gave her first interview since Miss Wyoming days in July 1946, leaving the reporter nonplussed when she said her life had been uneventful so far.

An odd circumstance of Mowery's acting career was how neatly compartamentalized were her original stage (1942-1945), film (1946-1951), and television (1953-1961) performances.

[57] She wound down her performing career with guest appearances on Frontier Doctor, Sea Hunt, Men into Space, and a couple of episodes of Lock-Up for the years 1959 through 1961.

After being born in Casper, raised in Lander, schooled in Omaha, Cheyenne, and Laramie, Mowery settled in Pasadena and remained living there until her death, 67 years later.