Dorothy Geeben
Politician
1908 – 2010
Who was Dorothy Geeben?
Dorothy P. Colleen Geeben was the oldest mayor in the United States. She served as the second mayor of Ocean Breeze Park, Florida, from 2001 to 2010.
Geeben began her public service work on the Ocean Breeze Town Council in 1960. She became the council's president in 1976 and served in that capacity for thirty-one years. In 2001, after the death of Ruth Hoke, the first mayor and widow of Gene Hoke, son of the town founders, Harry and Queena Hoke. Geeben was chosen to be the next mayor. She served as mayor for the next nine years, running unopposed in the 2002 and 2004 mayoral elections. Geeben died on January 11, 2010, after missing the town meeting because she felt ill.
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- Born
- Mar 31, 1908
Mondovi - Religion
- Christianity
- Profession
- Lived in
- Ocean Breeze Park
- Died
- Jan 11, 2010
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on July 23, 2013
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