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Helen DeVore was married to Elmer Eugene Browning for over 50 years and then she died with an instant heart attack. He went in to check on her and found her in bed, dead. She died 1994 and is buried at the veteran's cemetary in Danville, IL. She was born in Chicago, IL.and married Elmer Eugene Browning 1943. Elmer had joined the Army Air Corp, and flew 35 missions over Germany hanging out of the bottem of a B=17. Nine months after Helen died, he made the biggest mistake of his life and married a woman named MABEL HOLYCROSS ESTES. He later had to divorce her. In Sept 2007, he married MELBA ARCHER, and together, they wrote a book about his missions over Germany and enemy occupied Belgium, France and Holland. The book has every mission plus photos of the ten man crew aboard the B-17 and they named themselves "Elmer's Tune".......after the pilot, Elmer Gillespie and Elmer Browning and the song: "Elmer's Tune". This is a story of his life, non fiction, and is in the library of Congress. called Elmer's Tune written by Elmer Eugene Browning, Ball Turret Gunner - B-17 and Melba Archer Browning. It is available at your local book store and on the internet and also through the Brownings using the ISBN 978-0-9817572-1-6.
Helen DeVore was the daughter of Carol Wilber DeVore and
Sylvia Wilcox. She had a sister, Betty, a brother: Donald,
Robert, and several other brothers. Her father came moved to IL from some place in Indiana. Elmer and Helen had one daughter, Sheila who married William Gold. Sheila was born in Danville, Il., and she and Bill were married in Danville, and their three children were all born there. Sheila and her husband live in Douglasville, Ga.
Elmer Eugene Browning received the distinguished flying cross, the purple heart, the bronze star, the Presidential citation with one oak leaf cluster, Air Metal with 4 oak leaf clusters for valor, and Ameroca-European Theater with three battle stars and other numerous metals. He was in the first wave of heavy bombers flying over the beach at Normandy, D-Day June 6, 1944.
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