Brea : City’s ‘First Husband’ Honored for Support

Bill Blamer was honored the other day.

For consuming more “self-prepared dinners than any other married man in Brea.” For attending numerous openings, unveilings, balls and receptions. For getting “plastered” during a city mask-making project. And for hugging “so many women in the past 18 months that he rivals Rudolph Valentino.”

Blamer--husband of outgoing Mayor Clarice A. Blamer--received a formal commendation from his wife, complete with seven “whereases” and a “therefore,” on her last night as mayor.

Blamer thanked her husband of 40 years for his support during her mayoral tenure at a City Council meeting last Tuesday.

“I think he’s given a lot to help me these last 18 months,” Clarice Blamer said Friday. “He’s been an important factor in my life for 40 years, and I certainly don’t want to forget him now.”

During the council reorganization meeting, Mayor Pro Tem John Sutton assumed Blamer’s role as mayor. And Councilwoman Norma Arias Hicks, who became Brea’s first mayor in 1983, became mayor pro tem.

Sutton, a Brea resident for 26 years who was a planning commissioner for 17 years, was elected to the council in November, 1983.

Both Sutton and Hicks will serve in their new roles through November, 1987.