About Helen Wilkes
Lived 1927 – 2015 (aged 88). Helen Wilkes was an American politician, nurse and entrepreneur.
Helen Wilkes (April 4, 1927 – October 7, 2015) was an American businesswoman, nurse and politician. Wilkes, who served as a city commissioner of West Palm Beach, Florida, from 1976 to 1988, became the city's first female Mayor in 1978.
Wilkes was born Helen Barbour in Fort Valley, Georgia.
In a 1987 interview, Wilkes considered her greatest political achievements to be the creation of West Palm Beach's first crime watch patrol. to improve relations between the city's black and white communities.
Helen Wilkes died on October 7, 2015, at age 88.
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Helen Wilkes was born on 4 April 1927 in Fort Valley.
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Helen Wilkes died on 7 October 2015.
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