No. 20 for the Beardsleys

Associated Press · April 20, 1964

Mrs. Helen Beardsley, wife of U.S. Navy Chief Warrant Officer Francis Beardsley, holds their 20th child, both yesterday at Fort Ord Army Hospital. The newcomer, Helen Monica, was named unanimously by the other 19 children. Beardsley, 43, who married his wife in 1961, had 10 children by. a previous marriage. Helen, 34, had eight from her previous marriage. The first child born from their union was born in July 1962. Beardsley said that the new addition wouldn't make very much necessity for changes in their Carmel, Calif., home.