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then-elective office in 1960. But "She could be in nature but
her duties, especiallyin the be- dee inside she wasn't that wa Jersey,where her mother was a
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ginning,covered much more. She was a teddy bear.at.heard» suffragette.During WJrld War II• yWhen she came into the of- Even ci office could be ri she enlisted in the U.S. Navy,
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lice,Pinole's population was just for it if Grimes thought..thin•s serving as a captam s yeoman
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greater,than 6,000 andgovern- werentbein done ro r as well as playing in a •dance. g properly _
ment was.minimal, consisting "She wasn't afraid to set the band -- at the Navy.Janding
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primarily of a building inspector l C' Council straight at mee' » equipment depot that temporar-
and "probably no more than said Abrahamso I.who succeeded dY occupied Golden Gate Fields
eight police ofncers,"said former Grimes before becoming Pleasan- in Albany.
City Councilman Jack Meehan. ton's city clerk. "when she felt It was her time in the Bay
There was no city manager the had conducted a meetin or Area, and that was where she
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and the city clerk was an elected made a decision ina ro riatel met future husband Charles
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position that was part-time and she would let them know.
Grimes.
paid little. Pinole's new Ci Hallo ned "She outranked my Dad,'
« ty opened Richard Grimes said:
When she started,there was shortly before her retirement in
Just the old adobe building down- 1998,and the Ci Council Cham- After the war she returned to ,
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town,"her son Richard Grimes bens were dedicated in her name. the East Coast and pursued mu-
said. "There was oln no foo, around sic as a livelihood,pla�ying bass
She prepared budgets for the with Be ,"Pinole 1Va or Be and singing' with perfornning
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various departments,she was the Boyle said."If she told ou some groups•But by 1947 she had mar-
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finance director,she was the per- ; thing,that's the wayit was.she ned and headed:west,;settling in
sonnel manager, said Meehan. ; did an excellent ob.She ke t the Cen�ito before m to Pinole.
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"The city manager does'all that council out of trouble."
stuff now.Beth was the de facto, At the same time th• .Reach Chris Treadway at
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City ager.I would say she co-# knew Grimes knew She also ctreadway ar cctimes.com or
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ordinated the city ad tion la side• "She loved toplay
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for almost the next 30 years." -jokes on people,"Ab n said
It was a task she accomplished Born Betty Williams,she was
while caring for four children on raised in a political Tamil in New •
her own after her husband,
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Charles,died in 1963."She raised
four kids and paid off the house
in 27 years, not 30," Richard
Grimes said.`That's ' g,be-
cause we weren't easy."