Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State

granddaughter are going for a visit. We just finalized the airplane tickets. We’re going to go
in March to our old castle, which is now being converted into a wonderful first-class hotel.
We saw it a couple of years ago when it was still in the ruins. We took a picture with the
ruins and all, standing in front of it. And then they refurbished the whole thing. I mean it
had burned out twice in our lifetime.
Hughes: What fun.
Dimmick: And so we’re going to go back to Donegal and look at our castle again, just the
three of us.
Hughes: So there’s Danish, Irish and English in this gene pool?
Dimmick: Yes, that’s it.
Hughes: And your mother’s maiden name was Taylor?
Dimmick: Yes. Margaret Taylor Reaber.
Hughes: Did you know your grandparents?
Dimmick: Oh yes.
Hughes: Tell us what they were they like.
Dimmick: Well, my mother’s mother had a degree from the College of Mines in Missoula,
Montana. Her husband was an engineer, a road engineer. He worked for King County at
one time. And my other side, my dad’s father, straight from Denmark at age 9 with his
parents, had no formal education beyond that. He went to Illinois and worked in the mines.
But he became a famous piano tuner and violin maker.
Hughes: Here in King County?
Dimmick: Right here in Seattle. They would call him down from the Sherman & Clay piano
store to tune up all the pianos whenever a maestro came to town. His name was Christian
Reaber. He lived to be 94, 95.
Hughes: So there’s a lot of longevity in this gene pool?
Dimmick: Oh yes. My mother also was 94, 95, when she died. And my grandmother and
my aunt were all that age. But my dad was 82 when he died.
Hughes: Tell us about him. He was American born, right?
Dimmick: Yes he was. My dad, Maurice Chrisitan Reaber, was a master mariner, he had
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