Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State

Dimmick: I worked for him three different times because I would get a baby and then I
would stay home for two years. And then he’d say, “I suppose you want your job back?”
And then I’d go back to work. And then I’d get another kid and I’d leave. And he’d say, “I
suppose you want your job back?”
Hughes: There’s two kids right?
Dimmick: Yes.
Hughes: And number one is born in 1958.
Dimmick: Yes. Taylor.
Hughes: And then?
Dimmick: Dana was born in ’62.
Hughes: Are they attorneys now? Did they ever want to be lawyers and judges?
Dimmick: My daughter was a probation officer, and she did that for 10 years. Now she’s a
judicial assistant.
Hughes: And your son?
Dimmick: My son is handicapped. He was a pro golfer and was teaching golf, and then he
got peripheral neuropathy.
Hughes: I’m sorry to hear that. Cy must have been a good golfer and it rubbed off on
Taylor. … I really liked a line that was in your husband’s obituary. It said “Cy’s real career
was golf, and to say he was a serious player is like saying Dickens was a serious writer.”
Dimmick: (Smiling) My son-in-law wrote that obit. His name is Bradley Scarp. He’s a
lawyer. But he took writing … graduated from Seattle University. He’s going to be writing
books someday.
Hughes: I imagine that Cy Dimmick would have liked that line a lot.
Dimmick: Oh sure. (smiling) That’s right.
Hughes: In Cy’s obituary there’s another wonderful line: Cy “once said that World War II
was the biggest event in his life, except for his marriage to Carolyn.”
Dimmick: That’s right.
Hughes: Did your son-in-law write that, too?
Dimmick: Yes he did.
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