Document - Historical information/data - Alyce Bolke Life facts in Death notice - 8/6/2014 Alyce Bolke, Eagan's first female Clerk-Treasurer passed away this weekend at age 96.
Alyce began working for the Township in 1960 when she was appointed Assistant to the Township
Assessor and then a year later Secretary to the Township Clerk. Later that year when the Town Clerk
resigned,Alyce was appointed as Clerk of Eagan Township on July 18, 1961. She was reappointed by
the Town Board several times and by 1965 the position became fulltime.When Eagan became a Village
in 1972 and a City in 1974,she was appointed Village Clerk-Treasurer and City Clerk-Treasurer,
respectively.
She held the position of City Clerk-Treasurer for the City of Eagan until her retirement in 1980.
Fun Facts of Note:Throughout the 1960s and through much of Eagan's early development boom of the
1970s, Bolke sold Eagan's Building Permits from her back porch (on Deerwood Drive)as there was no
regular office for her to work from at the 1914 Town Hall--and she didn't like walking through the mud
on an as-yet unpaved Pilot Knob Road,to get there.
Alyce ran all of the elections for Eagan between 1960 and 1980, however since she never had a drivers
license, Police Chief Martin DesLauriers, or her husband Ted (a mechanic for Northwest Airlines) always
drove her to Hastings on election night to deliver the locked ballot box.