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Biography[]

Rachel Crawford (nee Baines) was born on October 26, 1951 at Regis Memorial Hospital to Darlene and Jimmy Baines. She has one older sister named Harriette. When Harriette was 3-years-old and Rachel was 1, their father, Jimmy left their mother and didn't return for over 30 years.

Rachel met and married a man name Robert Crawford and together they have a son name Richard "Richie" Crawford. While Rachel was pregnant with her son, her husband, Robert passed away. This resulted in Rachel and Richie moving in with her sister and brother-in-law Carl.

In the first season, she was a free-lance writer whose stories about her own character in a short story from women's magazine offended most of the Winslows except Eddie. Eddie decided to take his character and bring him to real life and ask a girl on a date. He ended up getting beat up by the girl's boyfriend. Because of this story, it caused a serious rift between Rachel and her older sister Harriette. They finally reconciled after Laura and Judy knew the only way that they were to get along again was to lure them in the kitchen and using an example of themselves.

In seasons 2 and 3, Rachel buys out the former teen hangout spot from Leroy after Steve burned it down accidentally when firing up the grill. She rebuilt the hangout spot and renamed it Rachel's Place. Laura and Urkel both worked there on her wait staff part-time due to both being students in school. She had a few more waitresses, but according to Rachel, she lost them in with Gladys quitting and having to fire Loretta for stealing food from the pantry.

Appearance[]

Rachel is African-American with brown hair and brown eyes.

Personality[]

She is perceived as a dim-whitted young woman who is often complementing her own appearance and telling men who are younger than she is that she is actually younger than she really is. She often makes fun of Harriette's looks and age even though she is only two years younger than Harriette.

Relationships[]

Jimmy Baines - Father

Darlene Baines - Mother

Richard "Richie" Crawford - Son

Harriette Winslow (nee Baines) - Sister

Carl Winslow - Brother-in-law

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