October 17. On this date in 1992, Helen Bassett Hornby, the compiler of the reference book Lights of Guidance that is widely used in Bahá’í communities, died.

October 17. On this date in 1992, Helen Bassett Hornby, the compiler of the reference book Lights of Guidance that is widely used in Bahá’í communities, died.

Helen Hornby was born in the United States and graduated from Roosevelt University in Chicago. She became a Bahá’í in that city, and worked for the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare from which she took an early retirement to teach the Bahá’í Faith in Colombia. In Colombia she married Charles Hornby, and the couple later moved to Ecuador.