On May 17, 2016, Bonnie White, a local businesswoman, was sworn into office as the second female mayor of Kerrville. But who was the first? A little research showed it's been four decades since Kerrville last had a female mayor.
The first female mayor was Zelma Boyd Hardy, who was mayor 1973-74 and 1975-76. She was also the first woman on the Kerrville City Council, serving from 1970 to 1976. According to her obituary in the March 12, 2003, Kerrville Daily Times, the city made many improvements to streets, upgraded the drainage system, and voted to build the city's swimming pools and Singing Wind Park. She was an English teacher at Tivy and later at Schreiner College (now University). It was said she had a "way of making things happen." Mrs. Hardy died in March 2003 in Stone Mountain, Georgia, where she had move to live with her daughter. She and her husband George, a chaplain at the VA hospital, are buried at Fort Sam Houston.
40 years between female mayors. Hopefully it won't be 40 years until the next one.
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