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called, were married on August 14, 1926. Snippy was the county judge for 17 years, during the 1950s and 1960s, though he had never attended law school. His title was trial justice, and he was still judge when Mrs. Lindstrom’s nephew, Pete Estes, was elected sheriff in 1962. (Pete is now the vice-chairman of the county Board of Supervisors.)
One of Mrs. Lindstrom’s real claims to fame is that she was a member of the Washington Town Council when it was an all-women council headed by Mayor Dotsie Davis; she also served as treasurer. She was later elected mayor of the town in 1973. That council had only one man on it — Kermit Weakley.
“I was always involved,” said Mrs. Lindstrom. Besides being on the town council, she was a founding member of the library (where the Town Hall is now), and the county historical society. Cathryn Knuepfer of the Historical Society said, “Virginia
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