Barbara Franke Boyle came to Lafayette from Oakland in 1937, when she was 10. Her family had been using the ranch in the Happy Valley area as a summer place only prior to the that. They raised pears, and Barbara’s father operated the Walnut Creek Cannery. In the years that Barbara was going to grammar school in Lafayette, the library was a room on the main floor of the Town Hall. When she was in high school and worked on the school paper, Barbara had the opportunity to cover the founding of the League of Nations. She later had a career as a realtor.
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