Helen Dettweiler; First Professional Woman Golfer

Helen Dettweiler, 74, first woman golfer to turn pro. Miss Dettweiler, who maintained residences in Portland, Ore., and Palm Desert in her later years, was one of 12 charter members of the Ladies Professional Golf Assn. in 1950. She played the association’s tours in the 1950s and 1960s and worked as golf-teaching pro at the Thunderbird and Eldorado Country Clubs in Palm Springs. In 1946, she also designed a nine-hole golf course in Coachella, Calif., owned by famed aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran. On Nov. 13 in Palm Springs of cancer.