By Jason Sweeney

Mr. Dunnett

Roy Dunnett, a former Los Altos mayor and community volunteer, died April 29. Mr. Dunnett was 91.

Mr. Dunnett, a longtime Los Altos resident, served on the Los Altos City Council and was mayor from 1960-62.

In 1964, he was the first person to receive a Community Service Award from the Los Altos Board of Realtors, now incorporated into the Silicon Valley Association of Realtors.

Originally from Rochester, N.Y., Mr. Dunnett worked for Eastman Kodak. The company sent him to the Los Altos area to run operations here. Mr. Dunnett belonged to the Los Altos Rotary Club and the Elks Club and was instrumental in founding the Los Altos Senior Center.

Mr. Dunnett’s first wife, Thelma, died at 78. He was married to second wife Gina for 12 years.

“He did a lot of charity work,” Gina said. “He was good with the kids. He really was quite a guy.”

Judy Sidebottom, a director at the Senior Center from 1988-97, said Mr. Dunnett came by the center twice a day to help out. “He did so much for us,” Sidebottom said. “He was always there to help. He was a wonderful, wonderful man.”

May Wang, another director of the Senior Center, knew Mr. Dunnett well.

“He was a very hard worker,” Wang said. “He and his wife did a lot to promote the Senior Center. He was a very kind, very helpful and very patient man. He was always there to help.”

Mr. Dunnett is survived by wife Gina, sons Bob and Fred, five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.